#education

If we wish for our country to have an exponentially brighter future, one of the things we need to change is the popular perception some kids have towards school. School is not a prison, it is not a night club, it is not a fight club; school is for learning, learning is the thing that begins the process of separating us from the animals. ↗

— Joshua Neik

#education-system #intelligence #knowledge #wisdom #change

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#moderation #teaching #education

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. ↗

— Sharon M. Draper

#reading #writing #dreams

Belief is like that, a circle, and often I find that the seemingly simplistic explanations from childhood for the unexplainable have merit, maybe more so than all the educated and contrived answers of adulthood. ↗

— Frances A. Washburn

#education

Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them. ↗

— Paul Lockhart

#intelligence #problems #art

By seeking and blundering we learn. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#experience #learning-from-mistakes #education

Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#education

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#fear #interest #learning #education

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained ↗

— Walt Disney Company

#entertainment #education

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards. ↗

— Mark Twain

#humor #education