Quotes About Education

La obligación de cualquier maestro es ayudar a sus estudiantes a descubrir la verdad por sí mismos.

Si la escuela fuera verdaderamente democrática, no sería necesario adoctrinar con tópicos sobre la democracia.

Dotar a los alumnos de instrumentos críticos que les permitan extraer el contenido ideológico de los mitos.

Una reforma de los primeros niveles de la educación podía provocar cambios sociales significativos.

Es «antiliberal y amoral» el formar a los niños para que trabajen «sin apelar a la libertad ni a la inteligencia, sino en nombre del salario».

La escuela impide la difusión de verdades esenciales.

An essential mechanism of censorship, in Orwell's view, is a good education. If you've gone to the best schools, you have instilled into you the understanding that there are certain things it wouldn't do to say, or, we may add, even to think. It all becomes part of your being. And if you're a good student and have properly absorbed the lessons, you can become a responsible intellectual. That's the unpublished preface to Animal Farm.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

the educational systems are oriented to maintaining the existing social and economic structures instead of transforming them

stupid orders for years and years—that's the way I did it, for example. Like, you're told by some stupid teacher, "Do this," which you know makes no sense whatsoever, but you do it, and if you do it you get to the next rung, and then you obey the next order, and finally you

That is the nature of being well educated. It is to accept the framework of power and not question it.

Such facts cannot be perceived within educated circles if they hope to retain respectability.

Education should not be a matter of pouring water into a vessel [...] it should be conceived as laying out a string along which learners proceed in their own ways, exercising and improving their creative capacities and imaginations, and experiencing the joy of discovery.

The idea that you have to avoid teaching evolution or pretend you're not teaching it is unique in the industrial world. And the statistics are mind-boggling. Roughly half the population think the world was created a couple thousand years ago.

It doesn't matter what we cover, it matters what you discover

Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on.

You love tests? Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?

You can never read too many books, any kind.

Education's supposed to be more than learning--leastways that's how we were taught. It's supposed to help build your character and help teach you how to get on in the world. If it tells you that you get booted for doing what you had to do, for standing up for yourself, then something's wrong with the system.

need this." Maureen jogged in place. "Eighteen kindergartners on a sugar high. Every teacher in America should have their salaries doubled and get a bouquet of roses every freaking week. And a bottle of Landon Whiskey's gold label." "I

Tu as vraiment fait regarder Clueless à ta classe de littérature anglaise pour illustrer l'actualité d'Emma de Jane Austen?

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain. —Aristotle

Some learned and remembered, others never do." She walked down again.

Some learned and remembered, others never do.