Quotes About Learning

I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.

Why, then, are we locking kids up in an involuntary network with strangers for twelve years?

Real books, unlike schoolbooks, can't be standardized. They are eccentric; no book fits everyone.

education and schooling are, as we all have experienced, mutually exclusive terms.

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.

imitation of notable models as an effective spring of learning; was the most ancient and effective motivation to learn—to become like someone admirable—put to death deliberately by institutional pedagogy.

In theoretical, metaphorical terms, the idea I began to explore was this one: that teaching is nothing like the art of painting, where, by the addition of material to a surface, an image is synthetically produced, but more like the art of sculpture, where, by the subtraction of material, an image already locked in the stone is enabled to emerge. It is a crucial distinction.

The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you.

When children are stripped of a primary experience base as confinement schooling must do to justify its existence, the natural sequence of learning is destroyed, a sequence which puts experience first.

People have to be allowed to make their own mistakes and to try again, or they will never master themselves, although they may well seem to be competent when they have in fact only memorized or imitated someone else's performance.

The most important things worth knowing are innate in you already.

What they write in rule books and how things really work are never the same. We all learn that as we get older.

the incredible inventiveness of the American people, a natural by-product of three factors: an open-source learning tradition; a heterogeneous, mixed-age society which didn't exclude the young from full participation; and a government presence without heavy-handedness.

In the absence of a perfect universal mentor, books and other texts are the best and cheapest stand-ins, always available to those who know where to look. Watching details of an assembly line or a local election unfold isn't very educational unless you have been led in careful ways to analyze the experience. Reading is the skeleton key for all who lack a personal tutor of quality.

School is a perfect place to turn science into religion, but it's the wrong place to learn science, for sure.

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

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

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.

Schools create the problems they seem to exist to solve.

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?

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.

School takes our children away from any possibility of an active role in community life—in fact, it destroys communities by relegating the training of children to the hands of certified experts—and by doing so it ensures our children cannot grow up fully human. Aristotle taught that without a fully active role in community life one could not hope to become a healthy human being. Surely he was right.