#education

"All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed."

"The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them."

"We are in the school [or mortality] and keep learning and we do not expect to cease learning while we live on earth; and when we pass through the veil, we expect still to continue to learn and increase our fund of information."

"The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions."

"Our experience of the governments of the world, our knowledge of the weapons at their disposal, and our awareness of our own limitations justify pessimism. But some mysterious factor deep in the human psyche has produced a countervailing conviction that educating, organizing, uniting, and acting will make a difference."

"The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)"

"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 idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company."

"The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves"

"In the end, it's not what we keep our children from that will save them. It's what we put into them in the first place."

"The more you read, the better you are informed."

"In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness."

"The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ..."