Quotes About Education

progressives wrote the Common Core standards, used money from the 2009 stimulus bill to bribe states into adopting them, and are now "vetting" the tests that will eventually shape the curriculum used by school districts all across the United States.

Roughly two-thirds of educators wholeheartedly reject the new Common Core standards, or have reservations about them," and it would be just as accurate as the way the NEA wrote it.

Lou Kitchenmaster, a retired teacher from Michigan, wrote an editorial in 2012 that puts the progressive position in perfect perspective: None of us would expect our major auto makers to build a high-quality product given damaged or defective materials; however, too many unfairly expect our public schools to accomplish such, regardless of the inherent condition of the "product" they receive. So he considers poor kids to be "damaged or defective materials

The ability to read is a prerequisite of baking.

Our Founders explicitly designed our system so that all powers not delegated to the federal government (education included) fell to the states or the people; they believed that parents, not government officials, have the moral right to decide what their children are taught.

The Common Core State Standards Initiative, as it's officially known, is the product of three private organizations, two of which have official-sounding names: the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). The third private group is Achieve Inc., which boasts on its Web page that it helped take the idea of nationalized learning standards from "a radical proposal into a national agenda.

We allow poor teachers to hang around and plague our schools until they choose to retire. That

Many attempts have been made in the years since to adopt educational vouchers. With minor exceptions, no one has succeeded in getting a voucher system adopted, thanks primarily to the political power of the school establishment, more recently reinforced by the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, together the strongest political lobbying body in the U.S.

The more you test him, the slower he will learn and the less he'll want to do. The less you test him, the quicker he will learn and the more he'll want to learn. Knowledge is the most precious gift you can give your child. Give it as generously as you give him food.

We have found over and over again that a child at home with mother can learn as much in an hour as the average child learns in a day at school; as much in a day as the average child learns in a week at school.

En alguna ocasión alguien dijo que la ignorancia no consistía en no saber nada, sino en saber demasiadas cosas que no son verdad.

Así pues, lo único que debe hacer usted para enseñar cualquier cosa a su niño pequeño es organizarse de tal modo que le cause placer. Y eso no significa jugar. Los niños no quieren jugar, lo que quieren es aprender.

Supón que a más niños se les introduzca en el gran almacén del conocimiento acumulado por el hombre cuatro o cinco años antes de lo que se hace ahora. Imagina el resultado si Einstein pudiera haber tenido cinco años más de vida creativa. Imagina lo que podría ocurrir si los niños pudieran empezar a asimilar la sabiduría y el conocimiento del mundo años antes de lo que se les permite ahora.

No pida a su hijo que diga en voz alta las respuestas. Permítale siempre elegir entre dos respuestas posibles.

It is a basic tenet of all teaching that it should begin with the known and the concrete, progress from this to the new and the unknown, and last of all, to what is abstract. Nothing could be more abstract to the two-year-old brain than the letter b. It is a tribute to the genius of children that they ever learn it. It

Divide las parejas en dos juegos de cinco parejas cada uno. Muestra cada juego tres veces al día durante cinco días (o menos). Después de cinco días, retira una pareja de cada juego y añade una nueva pareja a cada juego. Sigue añadiendo una pareja nueva a cada juego y retira una antigua cada día.

Bucky solía decir que todos los niños nacen genios y que se pasan los seis primeros años de vida perdiendo su genialidad.

This solitude that you can acquire and should cultivate, this opportunity for contemplation of which you should take advantage, will be useful to you only insofar as you can substitute for those questions posed by the student for the teacher, questions posed by yourself for yourself. - Advice to a Graduation

1) "school isn't where the real learning happens." (3).

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential,not God

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

Each others' lives are our best textbooks.

No wonder studies show that women's intellectual self-esteem tends to go down as years of education go up. We have been studying our own absence.

We learn most where we know the least.