Quotes About Education

We are talking about preventing our students from reading Huckleberry Finn! And why? Because it offends some people. Show me a book that offends no one, and i will show you a book that no one, in the whole history of the world, has ever willingly read.

Per educare un altro bisogna avere nei confronti di se stessi almeno un poco di fiducia e di simpatia.

Frost wrote, "is that unless you are at home in the metaphor, unless you have had your proper poetical education in the metaphor, you are not safe anywhere. Because you are not at ease with figurative values: you don't know the metaphor in its strength and its weakness. . .

Also, each person has a different learning style. Some may respond best to visual information, others to language (lectures, reading), others must touch or engage the physical world for things to make sense.

At best, the responsible student may learn a new concept of human relationships that rejects the propriety of practicing human sacrifice.

The obedient student was taught not to challenge authority. The responsible student is prepared to question—and if need be, to challenge—anything.

In the world of the future, children will be taught the basic dynamics of self-esteem and the power of living consciously and self-responsibly.

Coopersmith discovered no significant correlations with such factors as family wealth, education, geographic living area, social class, Father's occupation, or always having Mother at home. What he did find to be significant was the quality of the relationship between the child and the important adults in his or her life.

The demand today is for people with knowledge.

Today one needs an education. One needs formal training. Or else one needs to be extraordinarily gifted at self-education. And one needs to understand that the process can never stop, because new knowledge begins to make one's training obsolete almost as soon as one completes it.

Not all communication problems are the result of inadequate education; sometimes the cause is a self-concept that generates self-sabotage.

Knowledge is more widely disseminated and freely available than ever before, making it much easier for people to operate at higher levels of consciousness in their work and consequently to be more productive.

If a proper education has to include an understanding of thinking, it also has to include an understanding of feelings.

people always grow more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser...

A modern child could teach old Hepzibah more than old Hepzibah could teach the child.

in our day, the very A B C has become a science greatly too abstruse to be any longer taught by pointing a pin from letter to letter.

Melissa laughed and said that our dog was homeschooled

Old Sturbridge Village, a living museum that re-creates life in New England through the 1830s

Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically in Egypt. But here it is done psychologically and by education. So even if women have the clitoris, the clitoris was banned; it was removed by Freudian theory and by the mainstream culture.

the deliberate application of the techniques of theater to politics, religion, education, literature, commerce, warfare, crime, everything, has converted them into branches of show business, where the overriding objective is getting and satisfying an audience.

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

Suddenly it was obvious to Connor why they don't teach it. Once education was restructured and corporatized, they didn't want kids knowing how close they came to toppling the government. They didn't want kids to know how much power they really had.

That's exactly what the scythedom is: high school with murder.

How much do you know about the Heartland War?' Connor shrugs. 'It was the last chapter in our history textbook, but we had state testing, so we never got to it.