#education

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#intelligence #science #education

In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long. ↗

— Alfie Kohn

#education

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy. ↗

— Holly Lisle

#education

I'm a big believer in education, period. ↗

— Jon Secada

#big #big believer #education #i #period

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#between #difference #do you know #education #fine

Obedience is the primary object of all sound education. ↗

— Elizabeth Missing Sewell

#obedience #object #primary #sound

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#brain #digests #education #folly #fool

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#educational #exciting #just #purpose #rather

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#blew #college #college education #concerned #depression

I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

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