education

"No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete."

"Will this be in the examination, Mr Hecker?"was the limit of my students' interest in any given subject. If it was going to be in the test they took notes, if it was not going to be in the test they did not take notes. Their silent, depthless stares were unnerving. I told myself that they were not stupid - for how could the final attainment of thousands of years of human progress be stupid?"

"Nobody in Colonial America, to be sure, believed that society owed every child the ultimate in education, but intelligence, industry, and thrift combined with ambition got many a poor man's son into the colonial colleges."

"Lernen und nicht denken ist nichtig, denken und nicht lernen ist ermüdend."

"Education is no substitute for intelligence."

"If you want to get educated, fall in love with learning."

"They [students] had two common, strongly held expectations: the college should exhibit the behavior it expected from students and hold true to its espoused values."

"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards."

"The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any."

"Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of."

"When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style."

"What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship."

"If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience."

"We need to eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, religion, and nationality. Every human requires food and water to survive and every human has a heart that bleeds, loves, and grieves."

"Education is important not because it helps you to get a job, but because it opens the window of the mind through which we can see the beauty of life."

"College is not important, knowledge is"

"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."

"A teacher will be frustrated if she is only motivated to teach what she has learned. Yet, if she is motivated because of the students, then she will learn from them how to teach."

"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out."

"Christ is the Lesson as well as the Teacher."