#cat

It facilitates labor and thought so much that there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind, and to govern by steam. But it is at frightful cost. Our modes of Education aim to expedite, to save labor; to do for masses what cannot be done for masses, what must be done reverently, one by one: say rather, the whole world is needed for the tuition of each pupil. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#school #education

I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#reform #school #education

[Charlie] Moon was trying hard to get a handle on this. Maybe he's got a PhD. What with pass-fail replacing conventional grading, Internet diploma mills, and who knows what other academic innovations that has been driving the dumbing-down in American education, you couldn't tell who might have a sheepskin tucked away in his hip pocket. ↗

— James D. Doss

#education

Words can fool, Words can maim, Words can educate the brain. But when the mind transcends the writer knows, clarity follows where the pen goes. ↗

— K Herz

#education

If values are woven into the very concept of education, where is the need for separate value education? ↗

— Vijaya Bharathy

#values #education

Warriors are warriors not because of their strengh, but because of their ability strengh to good purpose ↗

— Eric Greitens

#education

We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them. ↗

— Diane Ravitch

#history #education

Girls possess sexual tact in inverse proportion to their standard of education. ↗

— John Fowles

#women-sexuality #education

What you’re saying is a person whoever has a piece of paper can get a job to teach someone else to get a piece of paper, and it's those who have a piece of paper which say whether those who wish to have a piece of paper can have a piece of paper, and then those who received a piece of paper from those who have a piece of paper can either go on to higher employment or continue to teach other people who wish to have a piece of paper..." (Kang Dee, dolphin, talking about degrees) ↗

— Dani J Caile

#education

A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is about learning that molds a lifetime, learning that transmits the heritage of millennia; learning that shapes the future ↗

— Drew Gilpin Faust

#educational-system #university #education