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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it read more
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed read more
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to read more
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
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 what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.