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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math read more
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?" -Barbara J. Alexander.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism read more
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.
College isn't the place to go for ideas. -Hellen Keller.
College isn't the place to go for ideas. -Hellen Keller.
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
My education was interrupted only by my schooling
My education was interrupted only by my schooling
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
