Quotes about education
education successful government
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect . . . their governors are educated. John Dewey
education science reality
Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.
educational philosophy growth
Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.
education children believe
I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated that will be most effective in bringing the child to share in the inherited resources of the race, and to use his own powers for social ends. I believe that education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
educational believe moving
I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can regulate and form itself in a more or less haphazard and chance way. But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move.
education principles authority
Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.
education truth thinking
Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.
educational soul action
Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
educational kind problem
The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.
educational philosophy thinking
Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.
education school organization
Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.
education children parent
What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that that must community want for all it's children.
educational ends process
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
education school order
Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order
education responsibility ideas
It is part of the educator's responsibility to see equally to two things: First, that the problem grows out of the conditions of the experience being had in the present, and that it is within the range of the capacity of students; and, secondly, that it is such that it arouses in the learner an active quest for information and for production of new ideas. The new facts and new ideas thus obtained become the ground for further experiences in which new problems are presented.
educational past quality
Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy. Any subject matter which accomplishes this result is humane, and any subject matter which does not accomplish it is not even educational.
education self-education
Education is life itself.
education art poet
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art. John B. S. Haldane
education
Education is... doing anything that changes you. George Leonard
education tree twigs
As the twig is bent the tree is inclined. George Ade
education writing school
"Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.
education school learning
Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools. Gabriela Mistral
education children parenting
Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.
education father college
My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again. Gabriel Mann
education sides common
The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness. Francois Fenelon
educational causes watches
Even other movies I wasn't involved with, I'd watch them edit 'cause I really enjoy watching them go through their process. It's a very economical, educational process. George Clooney
education character mean
Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods. Edward Thorndike
education science men
In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land." Edward Teller
education thinking pages
I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.
education play analysis
Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going. Edward de Bono
education teaching math
Most people...are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can't handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.
education learning world
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated. Edith Hamilton
education interesting important
When I read educational articles it often seems to me that this important side of the matter, the purely personal side, is not emphasized enough; the fact that it is so much more agreeable and interesting to be an educated person than not. The sheer pleasure of being educated does not seem to be stressed.