#system

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

Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important or worth finishing; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even. The habits taught in large-scale organizations are deadly. ↗

— John Taylor Gatto

#education-system #education

People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought. ↗

— Richard Mitchell

#logic #thought #education

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#behaviour #belief-systems #child-development #conditioning #education-system

A different voice may be particularly effective in disturbing the existing participants into re-examining matters they had come to take for granted. ↗

— Stefan Collini

#humanities #education

Traps!" he said. "Never in the world! Don't think it! Why, Gower is just a necessary olf bore. Nobody's supposed to know much about him--except instructors and their hapless students. ↗

— Henry Blake Fuller

#educational-system #poets #education

Depth of understanding involves something which is more than merely a matter of deconstructive alertness; it involves a measure of interpretative charity and at least the beginnings of a wide responsiveness. ↗

— Stefan Collini

#education-system #humanities #education

I admit it in school I was an underachiever and it was so easy to do. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#education

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#beings #competing #conditions #following #human

It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#character #gets #male #pretty #support