education

"Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy."

"I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas."

"Education is the light switch for the mind. You have to turn it on to see the world in your own way."

"The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education."

"Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you."

"The working class had imposed upon them a sterile and authoritarian educational system which mirrored the ethos of the corporate workplace."

"Possibilities exist for you, to educate yourself, to the highest degree."

"The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered."

"To confuse compulsory schooling with equal educational opportunity is like confusing organized religion with spirituality. One does not necessarily lead to the other. Schooling confuses teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new."

"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already."

"It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry."

"Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."

"I don't care what kind of grades they give you at Delcroix. I wanted you to go there so you'd have a chance to learn how to use your gifts, and be confident enough to fight for what you believe in."

"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?"

"…the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects, we destroy his standards, perhaps for life."

"When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth"

"There was a new simplicity to what I did, a door that had opened before me to worlds I had not imagined. From where I sat, if you watched carefully you could marvel at it, like the impossible birth of a cottonseed or the slow rise of a wooden house: the steady construction of a man, built brick by brick from the shadow of a boy."

"What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults."

"Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."

"Under her high brows, she eyed him straight on and straight across. She had gone to girls' schools, he recalled later. Those girls looked straight at you."