Quotes about education
educational philosophy school
It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for the identities that are in the process of construction, without taking into consideration the conditions in which they are living and the importance of the knowledge derived from life experience, which they bring with them to school. I can in no way underestimate such knowledge. Or what is worse, ridicule it. Paulo Freire
educational philosophy reality
No reality transforms itself.
educational philosophy love-is
Love is an act of courage.
educational philosophy teaching
The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.'
educational philosophy literature
One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming.
educational men practice
Indeed, some "revolutionaries" brand as "innocents," "dreamers," or even "reactionaries"; those who would challenge this educational practice. But one does not liberate people by alienating them. Authentic liberation - the process of humanization - is not another deposit to be made in men.
educational views people
One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.
education bulls taurus
In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.] Ovid
education art men
To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.
education teacher mind
Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.
education children years
When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion. So that makes me two and a half billion. Paul Erdos
education school thinking
I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness. Mary Wollstonecraft
education accomplishment understanding
... in the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment ...
education heart independent
The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.
education men degrees
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
education media fallouts
Education is civil defence against media fallout. Marshall McLuhan
education world expendables
Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.
educational independent technology
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
education growing-up children
Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.
education teacher mean
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. Maria Callas
educational real-you long
It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time. Margery Williams
education class humanity
The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity. Paul Goodman
education practice culture
There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture.
education mistake cutting
We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith. Pat Benatar
education children parent
Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children. Pat Buchanan
education hard-work thinking
If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
education uncles america
I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount of blind hatred directed at black conservatives by liberals. Liberals are shockingly quick to demean and dismiss brilliant black people like Rice, Carson, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Professor Walter E. Williams and economist Thomas Sowell because they don't fit into the role they have carved out for a black person in America. Black Americans must be obedient liberals on all things or risk being called a race traitor or an Uncle Tom. Juan Williams
education school reality
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. Joseph Stalin
education inspiration book
Man is what he reads. Joseph Brodsky
education reading book
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
education giving-up taken
Notable enough, however, are the controversies over the series 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ... whose sum was given by Leibniz as 1/2, although others disagree. ... Understanding of this question is to be sought in the word "sum"; this idea, if thus conceived - namely, the sum of a series is said to be that quantity to which it is brought closer as more terms of the series are taken - has relevance only for convergent series, and we should in general give up the idea of sum for divergent series. Leonhard Euler
education wise perfect
For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.
education book reading
... I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly to give me private lessons; but he gave me much more valuable advice to start reading more difficult mathematical books on my own and to study them as diligently as I could; if I came across some obstacle or difficulty, I was given permission to visit him freely every Sunday afternoon and he kindly explained to me everything I could not understand ...