Quotes about education
education clothes noses
I am the student who picks his nose, so come over here and take off your clothes. John Hiatt
education teacher teaching
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson. John Henrik Clarke
education powerful people
Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it. John Henrik Clarke
educational garden satisfaction
Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity. John Evelyn
educational school needs
Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is. John Engler
educational philosophy sight
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere John Donne
education children thinking
The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that, while seated on the lavatory, waiting in doctors' surgeries, on stationary trains or watching interviews with politicians, they may have something interesting to think about. John Mortimer
education noble green
I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. John Milton
education learning australia
The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education. John Monash
educational facts reason-why
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials. John Dewey
educational believe progress
I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform. John Dewey
education future learning
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. John Dewey
education capacity process
The result of the educative process is capacity for further education. John Dewey
education law soul
There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is dead and buried. There is no room for fixed and natural law or permanent moral absolutes. John Dewey
education successful government
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect and who obey their governors are educated. 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. John Dewey
education teaching thinking
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results. John Dewey
education teacher thinking
The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt. John Dewey
education teacher thinking
One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching. John Dewey
education teaching order
Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and of ideas. This condition is satisfied only as the educator views teaching and learning as a continuous process of reconstruction of experience. John Dewey
educational struggle school
Various epochs of the past have had their own characteristic struggles and interests. Each of these great epochs has left behind itself a kind of cultural deposit, like a geologic stratum. These deposits have found their way into educational institutions in the form of studies, distinct courses of study, distinct types of schools. John Dewey
education growth literacy
The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth John Dewey
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. John Dewey
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. John Dewey
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. John Dewey
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. John Dewey
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. John Dewey
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. John Dewey
educational soul action
Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other. John Dewey
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. John Dewey
educational philosophy thinking
Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. John Dewey
education school organization
Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done. John Dewey
education children parent
What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that that must community want for all it's children. John Dewey