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.
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There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy read more
There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy to maintain, but ultimately toxic. Other tool is passion.
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., read more
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve
possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]
Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school read more
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -Galileo.
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -Galileo.
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to read more
If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
Education: A debt due from present to future generations.
Education: A debt due from present to future generations.
