Schooling Quotes - Page 3

• Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.

  Winston Churchill

  Learning, School, Education And Freedom

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• It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Education, Children, Mean

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• I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.

  Seymour Papert

  Jobs, Children, Teaching

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• Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

  Emma Goldman

  Life, Education, Children

  Emma Goldman (1968). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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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

  Education, Flower, Teaching

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• Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

  Jacques Barzun

  School, Hands, Two

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• Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

  Nat King Cole

  Segregation, Plenty, Only Time

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• I'll continue to fight for school choice and home schooling. Do I believe in accountability? You bet I do.

  Charlie Crist

  Believe, School, Home

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• It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Sad, Education

  "Conducting Meaningful Interpretation: A Field Guide for Success". Book by Alan E. Wilkinson, p. 154, 2006.

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• I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Done, Taught, Professors

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• Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

  Philip Emeagwali

  School, Eight, Years

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• An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

  Anatole France

  Education, Memories, Learning

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• Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

  Robert Frost

  Education, Philosophy, Teaching

  Recalled on his death, 29 Jan 1963.

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• Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One flaw: sometimes, early on, she would tell me things designed to make me think less of my mother, and I would wave her away, saying, Jane, this just backfires and makes me think less of you.

  Martin Amis

  Mother, Thinking, Wicked

  "When darkness met light" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2000.

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• Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.

  Michael Jackson

  Sleep, Three, Records

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• I say all the time I think there should be some courses in the regular schooling system that isn't, even like about credit, things that matter later in life. I learned the harder way: 'Look, I got a $500 credit card in the mail, let's go shopping!'

  Khloe Kardashian

  Thinking, Later In Life, Shopping

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• The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

  Jean Piaget

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Art, Philosophy

  Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). “Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22”, p.356, Psychology Press

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• Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

  Beatrix Potter

  Education, Memorable, Learning

  Beatrix Potter (2005). “Beatrix Potter: Artist & Illustrator”, Frederick Warne Publishers

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• It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

  Murray Rothbard

  Limits, Absurd, Formal

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• You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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• To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.

  Joshua Slocum

  Taken, Years, Law

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.280, Applewood Books

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• There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply rooted in the values, traditions, and norms of family and culture.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Teacher, Profound, Parent

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (1978). “Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.

  Rick Springfield

  Has Beens, Ifs

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• In the history of everyone in whom the artist-within has survived conditioning, schooling, training - there are (persons) influences that have kept him alive, awake .. who have encouraged him without even trying - just by being. They have been One's real teachers.

  Frederick Franck

  Teacher, Real, Artist

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