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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

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

— Holly Lisle

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The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions. ↗

— Ken Robinson

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If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself ↗

— Alexander Sutherland Neill

#philosophy #unschooling #education

These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#lobbying #education

I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#ambassador #chance #education #giving #i

Our thoughts and our mind-sets greatly affect our perception of what life is really about ↗

— Wogu Donald

#entrepreneurship #inspirational #relationships #education

And so, there in the penitentiary, Juan's education began. He didn't want to be a puto weakling, so he worked hard at learning to read. His earthly body was locked up, but his mind was set free as a young eagle soaring through the heavens. ↗

— Victor Villaseñor

#freedom #inspirational #reading #reading-motivation #education

Love this quote from a teacher about their class "This is four walls around the future! ↗

— - Anonymous teacher

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All, all, becomes profitable. Education is of the most satisfying and available nature. I am at Smith! Which two years ago was a doubtful dream - and that fortuitous change of dream to reality has led me to desire more, and to lash myself onward - onward. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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