#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

There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials. ↗

— John Dewey

#philosophy #diet

…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters. ↗

— Norton Juster

#learning #phantom-tollbooth #education

Home is a child's first and most important classroom. ↗

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

#education

No man threatens His Grace in the presence of the Kingsguard.” Tyrion Lannister raised an eyebrow. “I am not threatening the king, ser, I am educating my nephew. Bronn, Timett, the next time Ser Boros opens his mouth, kill him.” The dwarf smiled. “Now that was a threat, ser. See the difference? ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#humor #tyrion-lannister #education