Educator Quotes - Page 7

• To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of African Americans to our society.

  Sol Stern

  Children, African American, Needs

  Sol Stern (2003). “Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice”

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• The role of the problem-posing educator is to create, together with the students, the conditions under which knowledge at the level of the doxa is superseded by true knowledge, at the level of the logos.

  Paulo Freire

  Together, Roles, Levels

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Only a well-organized movement of young people, educators, workers, parents, religious groups and other concerned citizens will be capable of changing the power relations and vast economic inequalities that have generated what has become a country in which it is almost impossible to recognize the ideals of a real democracy.

  Henry Giroux

  Country, Religious, Real

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The real challenge is not to get people to remember more, but to get them to understand better. We're just now beginning to be able to show what we can implement with technological tools. I think our interest at Apple is to be the provider of the instruments that will help educators and students create and entirely new kind of learning than what we have now.

  John Sculley

  Real, Thinking, Apples

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• I'm not an educator ... I'm a learner.

  Bill Gates

  Learners

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• What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.

  Joe Paterno

  Teacher, Nfl, Cases

  Speech to high school coaches, Hershey, Pennsylvania, www.today.com. February 5, 1993.

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• Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down.

  James H. Boren

  Ships, Lectures, Navigation

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• What radical constructivism may suggest to educators is this: the art of teaching has little to do with the traffic of knowledge, its fundamental purpose must be to foster the art of learning.

  Ernst von Glasersfeld

  Art, Teaching, Purpose

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• Teachers teach and students educate. Students are the only true educators. Historically, every other method of education has failed. Education occurs when students get excited about learning and apply themselves; students do this when they experience great teachers.

  Oliver DeMille

  Teacher, Students, Excited

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• Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several centuries. Its principal characteristic is that no one pays any attention to it.

  Neil Postman

  Attention, Research, Pay

  Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner (1973). “The school book: for people who want to know what all the hollering is about”

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• There is a good deal of excellent research on child's play. It has shown conclusively that through play, with the freedom of action it allows and the stressless environment in which it occurs, children discover, relate to and define themselves and their world. ...It is, therefore, paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Children, Play, Parent

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• Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs. In the United States, taxpayers spend almost $600 billion annually on public education, so it's not unreasonable to ask what all that money is producing. In fact, it's irresponsible not to know.

  Michelle Rhee

  Leadership, Education, Money

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• Apparently almost anyone can do a better job of educating children than our so-called 'educators' in the public schools. Children who are home-schooled by their parents also score higher on tests than children educated in the public schools. ... Successful education shows what is possible, whether in charter schools, private schools, military schools or home-schooling. The challenge is to provide more escape hatches from failing public schools, not only to help those students who escape, but also to force these institutions to get their act together before losing more students and jobs.

  Thomas Sowell

  Jobs, Children, Military

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• [Walt] Whitman and [humanist educator John] Dewey tried to substitute hope for knowledge. They wanted to put shared utopian dreams - dreams of an ideally decent and civilized society - in the place of knowledge of God's Will, Moral Law, the Laws of History, or the Facts of Science.... As long as we have a functioning political left, we still have a chance to achieve our country, to make it the country of Whitman's and Dewey's dreams.

  Richard Rorty

  Dream, Country, Law

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• My reluctance to enter any relationship with men has been affected by the fact that many Aboriginal men are very wounded and are not able to be in a healthy relationship due to historical damage and with non-Native men because I no longer want to educate them about Indigenous Issues. I'm tired of being the educator or nurse.

  Marilyn Dumont

  Tired, Men, Issues

  Interview with Margery Fee, canlit.ca. September 1, 2014.

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• Against the tyranny of forgetting, educators, young people, social activists, public intellectuals, workers and others can work to make visible and oppose the long legacy and current reality of state violence and the rise of the punishing state. Such a struggle suggests not only reclaiming, for instance, education as a public good but also reforming the criminal justice system and removing the police from schools.

  Henry Giroux

  Struggle, School, Reality

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If educators were really understanding of that, they'd say, "You know what? Forget about bilingual, we're going to do multilingual education." So children are ready for the new millennium. We're way behind compared to countries in Europe. If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Country, Children, Europe

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• Of course I'm totally biased, but I think my mom is an amazing educator. She continues to work tirelessly for the kids in her classes, year after year - despite the innumerable obstacles she faces. She is a huge inspiration to me.

  Kandyse McClure

  Mom, Inspiration, Kids

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• [Nineteenth century American educator] Catharine Beecher is really associated with the idea that a mother works with children in the home and a teacher works with children at school, and that therefore women are almost biologically predisposed to do this job.

  Dana Goldstein

  Mother, Teacher, Jobs

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My advice to educators is collaborate with parents; they know a lot about their kids.

  Ross W. Greene

  Kids, Parent, Advice

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We had a great educator [in the school band], a man named Larry Laurenzano. He was tough, but we knew that he loved us. And that was the beginning of playing music with people and really being inspired and having fun and being in a community.

  Jon Gordon

  Fun, School, Men

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• The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity, as often happens in old-time discipline . . . A room in which all the children move about usefully, intelligently, and voluntarily, without committing any rough or rude act, would seem to me a classroom very well disciplined indeed.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Lying, Moving

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in the Children's Houses with Additions and Revisions”, p.99, Read Books Ltd

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• There are two kinds of comments that I get. One is, oh, you're such a natural up there, and the other one is, you're working hard up there. And the ones who say I'm working hard are teachers, they're the educators; they're the people who are the performers. It's a huge investment of my psycho-emotional energy to pull that off and to make it look smooth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Emotional, Two

  "Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Writing, Mars, Curiosity, and the Higgs Boson". Interview With Sandra Kitt, aalbc.com. January 1, 2013.

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• educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can’t accurately do that, how can we tell if we’re getting better or worse?

  Randy Pausch

  Real, Self, Get Better

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.'

  Robert Winston

  Children, Television, Influence

  "Seeing is believing" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2004.

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