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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.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art read more
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. -Aristotle.
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance read more
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in read more
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. -James Baldwin.
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. -James Baldwin.
We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. read more
We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
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.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn read more
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
