#education

"The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding."

"No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one."

"We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach it to them, but by making the world, as far as we can, accessible to them, paying serious attention to what they do, answering their questions -- if they have any -- and helping them explore the things they are most interested in."

"An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment."

"You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life."

"What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects."

"Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education."

"Education is the preparation of a child intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, and physically for life and for eternity."

"There is no one who is happier than the person who is able to control his or her life. Who does what he /she thinks its right. Who pleases himself before everyone. Who doesn't suffer from what people will say syndrome. When you have time . Find a way to please yourself. Then you will be happiest person alive."

"You are allowed to think whatever you want at Emory, so long as it is approved by administrators. They are watching."

"Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble."

"If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued."

"There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable"for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before."

"in reality there is no such thing out of profit and loss .education is commerce"

"It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes."

"The tragedy is that there are many walking encyclopedias who are living failures."

"One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding."

"By seeking and blundering we learn."

"The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark."

"An intelligent person looks for problems to solve. The wise person looks for solutions."