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"And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord."--Ephesians 6:4
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children."--Isaiah 54:13
"Children have more need of models than critics."--Joseph Joubert
"We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given."--Midge Decter
"In our defense of biology and its mystique we are blind to the dangers of power. Women as the guardians of children posses great power. They are the molders of their children’s personalities and the arbiters of their development."--Ann Oakley
"Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point of precedence, in degree of power, in the faculty of teaching, and in the department allotted. For in point of precedence she is next to the Creator, in power over her pupil, limitless and without competitor."--Lydia Howard Sigourney
"A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected."--Eleanor Roosevelt
"There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster."--Sarah Josepha Hale
"I know the force women can exert in directing the course of events."--Helen Gahagan Douglas
"And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh."--Ecclesiastes 12:12
"Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good."--Lao Tzu
"Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices."--Laurence J. Peter, 1919-1988
"To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains."--Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
"There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But it is in some respects more cruel than a prison."--George Bernard Shaw
"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."--George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950
"The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving."--Russell Green
"The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things."--Plato, 427 BC-347 BC
"The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom."--Mirra Komarovsky
"They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything."--Olive Schreiner
"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
"Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems."--Ellen Key
"Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges."--Harriet Robinson
"Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes."--Norman Douglas
"I do not dislike teaching when the boys behave themselves."--Helen Herron Taft
"The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province."--Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, Out of My Later Years
"You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking."--Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher
"Man is never so authentically himself as when at play."--Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805
"Figuring out how to think about the problem."--Albert Einstein, in response to a question about what was most helpful in developing the theory of relativity
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."--Mark Twain, 1835-1910
"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."--Mark Twain, 1835-1910
"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated."--Alec Bourne
"Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."--G. M. Trevelyan, 1876-1962, English Social History, 1942
"Women are the real architects of society."--Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."--Gail Godwin
"College isn't the place to go for ideas."--Helen Keller, 1880-1968
"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students."--John Ciardi, 1916-1986
"If I ran a school, I’d give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I’d give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them."--R. [Richard] Buckminster Fuller
"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."--Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592
"What experience and history teach is this--that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it."--G. W. F. Hegel, 1770-1831, Philosophy of History, introduction
"All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents."--John F. Kennedy
"Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by 'learning' we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information."--Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976, German philosopher
"I tell you and you forget. I show you and you remember. I involve you and you understand."--Eric Butterworth
"Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?"--Diogenes of Sinope, fragment
"He who neglects the arts when young has lost the past and is dead to the future."--Sophocles, fragment
"Education is the kindling of a flame not the filling of a vessel."--Socrates
"Anything that we have to learn to do, we learn by the doing of it."--Aristotle, Ethics
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."--Aristotle
"Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones."--Aristotle, Ethics
"Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education."--Aristotle, Politics
"Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it."--Plato, The Republic
"The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge."--Plato, Protagoras
"Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal."--Plato, Protagoras
QUOTATIONS KEVIN
"School is where you should learn how to locate, verify, sort, correlate, compare, process, analyze, and test information for its reliability and validity--but where you are only force fed false facts."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where knowledge passes for intelligence."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Teach your children to put God first and to soothe themselves and you are a successful parent."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where your creativity and individuality is stifled in the name of the common good."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where they love voodoo emotions so never teach against them."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where thought is to be constricted, carved, channeled, and controlled--never set free."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Schools is where the Socratic method of inquiry is unknown."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where drills and petty skills replace learning and understanding."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where they ruin the most fun thing in the world after creativity, learning, by making it just another ego trip, just another way to rate your self and others."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where they reinforce the self-esteem trap."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where the teachers must have seen the movie Fahrenheit 451 and believed it to be a prophecy since they are focused on memorizing rather than understanding."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where you learn to hate learning."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where they are always behind the times, e.g., computer science is not yet a core course."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Schools are what are run by bribes (positive reinforcement) and threats (natural consequences)."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where we send our children to have women complete the destruction begun by their mother."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where female ways of understanding and learning dominate as female instructors dominate--all of which results in males being turned off to school and being seen as a problem needing drug solutions by female teachers."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where you learn that work is not fun."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where you learn that a career is boring and just a way to make money."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where they are still trying to turn people into talking books despite the fact that we can now all own books and look up facts for ourselves."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where all parents are obligated to find out what the hidden curriculum is, e.g., politically correct principles."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School are what over a million children in the USA are being kept out of in favor of home-schooling."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is what needs to be a whole brain experience, but what is only a left-brained experience."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where you go to get a piece of paper to prove you can do what you have never done."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where you go to get a piece of paper to prove you can do what no one will believe you can do otherwise."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where test performance is more important than understanding."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where you learn to choose easy tasks so you can perform better."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where problem solving is not taught except in the most limited sense."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where life skills are ignored in favor of memorizing false histories."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where parents can dump their children cheaper than at daycare."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where thinking is despised in favor of memorizing lies and silly facts."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where you are taught anything but 'how' to think."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where you are trained to put up with nonsense so that you might fit into society and the work world."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where questioning either makes you look like a fool or a rebel instead of an intelligent tester."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is prison for the young."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where teachers ask questions that only they can have the correct answer for in order to boost their petty egos."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where we can keep out prayer but not violence or guns."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is the place where the propaganda of your society is instilled into you."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"School is where you are brainwashed into believing what your government finds it convenient for you to believe, e.g., in the USA the historical atrocities committed against the Native Americans, the Mexicans, and the Philipinos are at best glanced over in USA history classes."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Schools could be great if teachers were taught to be great coaches instead of drill instructors."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
Read Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, and other Bribes by Alfie Kohn
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