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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.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Nature has always had more force than education.
Nature has always had more force than education.
It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's read more
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
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.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on read more
More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build alot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities. -Jonathan Kozol.
