Quotes About Education

It is natural businessmen should seek to influence the enactment and administration of laws, national and international, and that they should try to control education.

It was from Washington's bribes, subsidies, and cajolings that institutional schooling spread, not from the merit of the idea.

there are many ways to interdict the growth of competence, of clear thinking, of forceful purpose, and each is a talking choo-choo in different guise: think of slasher flicks, think of pornography, think of Big Macs or tabloid/network news — each is easy to take, each seemingly an inconsequential time-killer. But ah! The ensemble of them playing their mindless tunes — the Death of a Thousand Cuts!

nüfusu "idare edilebilir" k?lmay? amaç edinmiÅŸ bir eÄŸitim sistemi.

Not ortalamas?."; evet, hepimizin bir not ortalamas? var.

Avrupa'da diktatörlerin güç kullan?p zorlayarak yapmaya çal??t?klar?n? eÄŸitim yoluyla baÅŸarmak.

Senin diplomanda bir "tarih öÄŸretmeni" olduÄŸun yaz?yor, oysa öÄŸrettiÄŸin ÅŸey propagandadan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸil.

Size ezberlemeniz gerektiÄŸi söylenen ÅŸeyleri ezberleyerek özgür olamazs?n?z.

The rigid stupidities of forced schooling, its linear logics, its bell curves, its buzzers and tests and multiple humiliations, its resort to magical spells, fills me with rage these days as an old man. Real education can only begin out of a foundation of self-awareness. Know the truth of yourself or you are nothing but a pathetic human resource. Your life will have missed it's point.

The myth of a golden age of public schooling is the creation of Ell-wood P. Cubberley, Dean of Teacher Education at Stanford University. There never was such a thing.

All training except the most basic either secures or disestablishes things as they are.

Schools create the problems they seem to exist to solve.

Construímos uma estilo de vida que depende de que as pessoas continuem fazendo o que lhes mandam fazer por não saberem como dizer a si mesmas o que deve ser feito.

Woodrow Wilson, then president of Princeton University, said the following to the New York City School Teachers Association in 1909: "We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forgo the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

A lição dos boletins, notas e provas é a de que as crianças não devem confiar em si mesmas ou em seus pais, mas, em vez disso, deveriam confiar na avaliação de autoridades credenciadas. É necessário que se diga às pessoas o valor que têm.

if children could be cloistered with other children, stripped of responsibility and independence, encouraged to develop only the trivializing emotions of greed, envy, jealousy, and fear, they would grow older but never truly grow up.

If walled compound schooling were ended, corrupt relationships with universities, textbook publishers, building contractors, bus companies, and other protected suppliers who thrive on a mass captive audience would wither quickly.

As escolas ensinam exatamente o que se pretende que ensinem, e fazem isso muito bem: como ser um bom egípcio e permanecer no seu lugar da pirâmide.

I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.

Em nossa sociedade secular, a escola se tornou o substituto da Igreja e, assim como na Igreja, é necessário que seus ensinamentos sejam aceitos com base na fé.

A escola é uma sentença de prisão de doze anos em que maus hábitos são o único currículo verdadeiramente aprendido.

Was it possible I did like kids, just not the script written for them?

Trapped children, like trapped rats, need close management.

Under this outlook, the classroom would never be used to produce knowledge, but only to consume it; it would not encourage the confined to produce ideas, only to consume the ideas of others.