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More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself,
is
the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what
is more
precious to us than our own children? We are going to build
a
lot
more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their
inequalities. -Jonathan Kozol
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The true end of education is not only to make the
young learned,
but to make them love learning;
not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry;
not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue;
not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after
justice. -John Ruskin
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Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime
can
destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave.
-Ropo Oguntimehin
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Must
we always teach our children with books? Let them look at the mountains and the stars above. Let them
look at the beauty of the waters and the trees and flowers on earth.
They will then begin to think,
and to think is the beginning of a real education.
-David
Polis
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Education is for improving the lives of others and
for leaving
your community and world better than you found it.
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The job of
an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves.
-Joseph Campbell |
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people have access to education today than ever before. But I cannot help but feel that the modern educational
experience is not preparing us adequately to attend the rich
banquet of life. Certainly the young people of today have
mastered the use of technology and are capable of solving
complex scientific and mathematical problems, but who and
what do these serve if they cannot think for themselves? If they have no understanding of the meaning and purpose of
their own lives? If they do not know who they are as
individuals? -Matthew Kelly |
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The
aim of education should not be to teach how to use
human energies to improve the environment, for we are
finally beginning to realize that the cornerstone of
education is the development of the human personality,
and that in this regard education is of immediate
importance for the salvation of mankind.
-Maria
Montessori
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It
is through education that all the good in the world arises.
-Immanuel
Kant
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Perhaps
the most valuable result of all education is the ability to
make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done,
whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to
be learned; and however early a person’s training begins,
it is probably the last lesson he or she learns thoroughly.
-Thomas
Henry Huxley
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Education would be much more effective if its purpose was
to ensure
that by the time they leave school every boy and girl
should know
how much they do not know,
and be imbued with a lifelong desire to
know it. -William Haley |
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I've
come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element
in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the
weather. As a
teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life
miserable
or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of
inspiration. I can
humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my
response that
decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated
and a child humanized or de-humanized.
-Haim
Ginott
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
-W. B. Yeats
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Education
should never work against a person's
destiny, but should
achieve the full development
of his or her own dispositions. The
education of
people today so often lags behind the talents and
tendencies which their destinies have implanted in
them. We must
keep pace with these powers to such
an extent that the human
beings in our care can win
their way through to all that their destinies
will
allow--to the fullest clarity of thought, the most loving deepening
of their feeling, and the greatest possible
energy and ability of will. This can only be done
by an art of education and teaching which
is based
on a real knowledge of people.
-Rudolf
Steiner
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will
look back at education as it is practiced in most schools
today
and wonder how we could tolerated anything so primitive.
-John W.
Gardner |
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| This is about helping children become themselves.
What is a school if it isn't helping people
find what they want to
do? I don't just mean careers. I mean teaching how to sing, dance,
paint, act, write poetry, play tennis, play the guitar. We'd be a
better, more harmonious
society if people had these interests
developed when they were young. But they don't. That's a cause of
depression. And the things I'm talking about: children need them
here
[in school], but the more deprived the background, the less the
infrastructure at home,
the greater the need. If schools aren't
going to do these things, who is?
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Upon the
subject of education, not presuming to dictate
any plan or system
respecting it, I can only say
that I view it as the most important
subject which
we as a people may be engaged in. -Abraham Lincoln |
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It
can be tempting to blame others for
our loss of direction. We get lots of information about
life
but little education
in life from parents, teachers,
and other authority figures who
should know better from
their experience. Information is about
facts. Education is about
wisdom and the knowledge of how to
love and survive. -Bernie
Siegel
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Education
does not mean teaching people to
know what they do not know; it means teaching
them to behave as they do not behave.
-John
Ruskin
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The biggest dilemma in education today is the differing visions
of
what an educated person means. To do well on tests
is often more
important than helping young people really
be prepared to deal with
the tests of life. -Linda Lantieri
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You know that I don't believe
that anyone
has ever
taught
anything to anyone. I question
the efficacy of
teaching. The
only thing that I know is
that
anyone who wants
to
learn will
learn. And maybe
a teacher is a
facilitator,
a
person who puts things
down and shows people
how
exciting and
wonderful
it is and
asks them to eat. -Carl Rogers |
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It must be
remembered that the purpose of education is not
to fill the minds of
students with facts. . . it is to teach them
to think, if that is
possible, and always to think for themselves.
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We are failing in schools of education because we're
not helping teachers to shed
the role of teachers and become human
beings and to realize that they are guides. To the extent to
which they recognize this, so will they be successful in the
classroom
because a kid can recognize a guide. . . . Imagine what it
would be like if everyone
in this room had the opportunity to be
encouraged to be a unique human being. But you
know how it
seems to me? That the essence of our educational system is to
make
everybody like everybody else. And when we've done that,
we consider ourselves
very lucky, indeed. You see it happening
all the time! "I'm not interested in your
uniqueness. I'm interested in knowing if I have succeeded in
giving you me, and
to the extent to which you can parrot me, I have
been a successful teacher."
-Leo Buscaglia |
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The aim of education should be to teach us rather how
to think, than what to think - rather to improve
our minds, so as to
enable us to think for ourselves,
than to load the memory with
thoughts of other people.
-Bill Beattie |
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I am not a teacher; only a fellow traveler of whom
you asked the way. I pointed ahead–ahead of myself as well as of
you. -George Bernard Shaw |
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Boredom will always remain the greatest enemy of
school disciplines. If we
remember that children are bored, not only
when they don't happen to
be interested in the subject or when the
teacher doesn't make it interesting,
but also when certain working
conditions are out of focus with their basic
needs, then we can
realize what a great contributor to discipline problems
boredom
really is. Research has shown that boredom is closely related to
frustration and that the effect of too much frustration is
invariably irritability,
withdrawal, rebellious opposition or
aggressive rejection of the whole show.
-Fritz Redl |
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Education
is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts,
skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather
a making
visible what is hidden as a seed. . . To be educated, a person
doesn't
have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have
been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged
human life. . . One of the greatest problems of our time is that
many
are schooled but few are educated. -Thomas Moore |
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Education, therefore, is a process of living and not
a preparation for future living. -John Dewey |
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The
aim of education is the
knowledge not of fact, but of values.
-William
R. Inge |
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It has always seemed strange to me that in
our endless discussions
about education so little stress is
laid on the pleasure of becoming
an educated person, the
enormous interest it adds to life. To be able
to be
caught up into the world of thought--that is to be educated.
-Edith Hamilton |
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Theories and goals of education don't
matter a whit
if you don't consider your students to be
human beings. -Lou Ann Walker |
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Real education must ultimately be limited to
people who insist
on knowing, the rest is mere
sheep-herding. -Ezra Pound |
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I've
come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive
element in the classroom.
It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I
possess a tremendous power
to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a
tool of torture or an instrument of
inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all
situations, it is my response that
decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated
and a child humanized or
de-humanized. -Haim Ginott |
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Education
is more than schooling. It is a cast of mind, a willingness to
see the world with an endless sense of curiosity and wonder.
If you would be truly educated, you must adopt this cast
of mind. You must open yourself to the richness of your everyday
experience--to your own emotions, to the movements of the heavens and
the languages of birds, to the privations
and successes of people in
other lands and other times, to the artistry in the hands of the
mechanic and the typist and the child. There is no limit to the
learning that appears before us. It is enough to fill us each
day a thousand times over. -Kent
Nerburn |
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No
one who worships education has got the best out of
education. . . . Without a gentle contempt for education
no person's education is complete.
-G.K. Chesterton |
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The
aim of education should
be to teach us rather how
to think, than what to
think--rather to improve
our minds, so as to enable us
to think for ourselves, than
to load the memory with
thoughts of other people. -Bill Beattie |
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Education
would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure
that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should
know how
much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire
to know it. -William Haley |
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An
educated person is one who has learned that information
almost always
turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false,
misleading,
fictitious, mendacious--just dead wrong.
-R. Baker |
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The
object of education is to prepare the young to
educate themselves throughout their lives.
-Robert Maynard Hutchins |
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| The word education comes from the
Latin word educare, which means "to draw
out." We do not teach our children the love of
learning. We do not hold knowledge before them as a
powerful tool for personal development. We don't
produce broadly educated, well-rounded leaders for
tomorrow. We teach more and more about less and
less. We don't draw out the individual. We
impose upon the individual--systems and structures. We
don't reverence individuality, we don't treasure it, we
stifle it and try to stamp it out. We don't educate,
we formulate. We abandon the individual in his or her
own need and uniqueness and "impose" the same upon
all.
We provide an education in specialization. We
produce clones for the modern world. We throw people
into a mold, which we call an education system, to form cogs
for the global economic wheel, all the time dangling the
golden carrot before them as incentive and reason.
Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the
very spirit they claim to instill.
Matthew Kelly |
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My
idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the
young and inflame their intellects.
-Robert Maynard Hutchins |
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Education is a
progressive discovery
of our own ignorance. -Will Durant |
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A child educated only at school is an
uneducated child. -George Santayana |
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Too
often we give children answers to remember rather than
problems to solve.
-Roger Lewin |
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To
me education is a leading out of what is already there in
the pupil's
soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something
that is not there,
and that is not what I call education. I call it
intrusion. -Muriel Spark |
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Children have to be educated, but they have
also to be left to educate themselves.
-Abbé Dimnet |
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There
is only one Education, and it has only one goal:
the freedom of the mind. Anything that needs
an adjective, be it civics education, or socialist
education, or Christian education, or
whatever-you-like education, is not education, and
it has some different goal. The very existence
of modified "educations" is testimony to
the fact that their proponents cannot bring about
what they want in a mind that is free. An
"education" that cannot do its work in a
free mind, and so must "teach" by homily
and precept in the service of these feelings and
attitudes and beliefs rather than those, is pure and
unmistakable tyranny.
-Richard Mitchell |
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The
modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather
difficult class,
because they do not realize how little they know.
-William R. Inge |
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Much education today
is monumentally ineffective.
All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we
should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
-John W. Gardner |
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Too often we give children answers to
remember rather than problems to solve.
-Roger Lewin |
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I think
everyone should go to college and get a degree and then
spend
six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver.
Then they would really be educated.
-Al McGuire |
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We
are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and
colleges, and
recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at
last with a bag
of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
-Ralph Waldo
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If
you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you
must study
the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You
need the balance! Your poor
brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road
crap, twenty-four
hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers,
radio, magazines
at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen,
or leave your
house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic
pressure alone
of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that
you are
automatically well-grounded in consensus reality.
-Ivan Stang |
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