Education Quotes - Page 20

part of the art of teaching is the ability to rearrange the world for students - to force them to see things in a new way. i've known too many stupid intellectuals to believe that education and wisdom come as a package deal along with facts, it's your perspective that counts - your ability to see differently, not just to see a lot.

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.

nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it

You can present the material, but you can't make me care.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Those who trust us educate us.

The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best

The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.

He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

You are educated. Your
certification is in your
degree. You may think of
it as the ticket to the good
life. Let me ask you to think of an
alternative. Think of it as your
ticket to change the world.

Twelve-year-olds are eager to turn everything into arguments but don't have the cognitive skills to win them.

…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.