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• Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

  John W. Gardner

  Flower, Teaching, Learning

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• I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hate, Activity, Invigorating

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• The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Machines, Painting

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• Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.

  Edward de Bono

  Basketball, Stars, Creativity

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• I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Past, Museums, Land

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• It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Chance, Teach, Interest

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• To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Parent, Mind

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• A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.

  Wendell Berry

  Mean, Order, Knowing

  Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”

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• The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Two, Community

  "English Literature: A Survey for Students". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1958.

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• Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.

  Robert Henri

  School, Winning, Years

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].

  William Merritt Chase

  School, Boys, Not Sure

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• Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today's youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Money, School, College

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Money, Opportunity, Keys

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.604, Best Books on

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• Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the nation's sake.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Children, Want, Sake

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.26, Best Books on

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• A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.

  Joseph Addison

  Wise, Art, Block

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.96

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• If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.

  Linda Darling-Hammond

  Baby, Learning, School

  Linda Darling-Hammond, Nicole Ramos-Beban, Rebecca Padnos Altamirano, Maria E. Hyler (2016). “Be the Change: Reinventing School for Student Success”, p.114, Teachers College Press

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• A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Eye, Belief, Succession

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• Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Real, School

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.19, University of Chicago Press

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• It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Life, Teacher, Reading

  "Why Schools Don't Educate". John Taylor Gatto's New York City Teacher of the Year Acceptance Speech, www.naturalchild.org. January 31, 1990.

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  The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

  Aristotle

  Graduation, Sweet, Congratulations

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  College, Pebbles, Diamond

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.676, Library of Alexandria

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• The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

  Alvin Toffler

  Teaching, Illiterate Person, Doe

  "The Portrait of a Future Leader" by Anne Loehr, www.wired.com. June 18, 2015.

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• Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

  Grace Hopper

  Change, Running, Wall

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.

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• Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.337, Running Press

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• It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

  Albert Einstein

  Humorous, Learning, Wings

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