Quotes About Education

Or might that framework itself alter a student's reactions to ancient texts, creating a feeling of threat and a stress response to what otherwise would have been experienced merely as discomfort or dislike?

The urge to help Hispanic immigrants in the 1980s led to multicultural education programs that emphasized the differences among Americans rather than their shared values and identity. Emphasizing differences makes many people more racist, not less.

Education must be seen as at least partially an effort to produce the good human being, to foster the good life and the good society."46

Students are treated like candles, which can be extinguished by a puff of wind. The goal of a Socratic education should be to turn them into fires, which thrive on the wind.

many parents, K-12 teachers, professors, and university administrators have been unknowingly teaching a generation of students to engage in the mental habits commonly seen in people who suffer from anxiety and depression.

You can learn more about cultivating the intellectual virtues and about how to incorporate them in schools at intellectualvirtues.org and in the writings of Jason Baehr, a professor of philosophy at Loyola Marymount University and one of the founders of the Intellectual Virtues Academy.32

The International Debate Education Association has suggestions for how to create a debate club.33 Students (and their parents and teachers) can also watch Intelligence Squared debates to see skilled debaters in action.34

Hanna Holborn Gray, the president of the University of Chicago from 1978 to 1993, once offered this principle: "Education should not be intended to make people comfortable; it is meant to make them think.

Los estudiantes universitarios de hoy han vivido unos tiempos extraordinarios y, en consecuencia, muchos de ellos han desarrollado una extraordinaria pasión por la justicia social.

The urge to help Hispanic immigrants in the 1980s led to multicultural education programs that emphasized the differences among Americans rather than their shared values and identity. Emphasizing differences makes many people more racist, not less.74

As Western societies became more educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic, the minds of its intellectuals changed. They became more analytic and less holistic.26 Utilitarianism and deontology became far more appealing to ethicists than Hume's messy, pluralist, sentimentalist approach.

It depends on what you think is the purpose of education. Hanna Holborn Gray, the president of the University of Chicago from 1978 to 1993, once offered this principle: "Education should not be intended to make people comfortable; it is meant to make them think."40

Schools don't teach people to reason thoroughly; they select the applicants with higher IQs, and people with higher IQs are able to generate more reasons.

The loss of political diversity among the faculty has negative consequences for students

If you're not engaged and active in a learning situation, you probably won't get much out of it, just as Serge's example illustrates. Get the most out of your practice by coming to lessons—or any learning situation—with specific goals in mind. One of the most powerful things you can learn from a teacher is how to practice. Some teachers

It's exciting how much there is to learn; several lifetime's worth, really.

I listened as she griped enthusiastically about the pathetic emotional stamina of the undergrads foisted upon her. She'd said the same thing last year. I said, "It's gotten worse?" "It's nonstop devolution, Alex. The batch I got this semester is allergic to facts and feels entitled to unearned adoration. We're talking the emotional musculature of blind cave worms.

Maybe attorneys attend schools where grades are based on how many word you put out.

Please, son, listen: intellectual vigor and humanity don't always go together. One can be an A student but a D person. And you have the drive. I need someone with drive . And you, dear. You're his soulmate in every way.

The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.

But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.