List Of Educational Quotes

Sociologists Well Understand That Chaos At Home Causes Violent Behavior, Educational Failure And Social Alienation Among Children. Yet, Many Of Us In America Stay Far, Far Away From This Topic. That In Itself Is A National Scandal. Bad Parenting Is Gravely Harming This Nation.

The Real Purpose Of Books Is To Trap The Mind Into Doing Its Own Thinking.

You Can't Unscramble Eggs.

You've Got To Look For A Gap, Where Competitors In A Market Have Grown Lazy And Lost Contact With The Readers Or The Viewers.

I Think In Terms Of The Day's Resolutions, Not The Years'.

The Policy Of Letting The Child 'do What He Likes' Is An Insidious One, Since The Children Are Encouraged To Continue Always At Their Original Superficial Level, Without Receiving Guidance In Study. Furthermore, The 'three Rs,' The Fundamental Tools, Are Neglected As Long As Possible, With The Result That The Child's Chance To Develop His Mind Is Greatly Retarded. The Policy Of Teaching Words Via Pictures Instead Of By The Alphabet Tends To Deprive The Young Child Of The Greatest Reasoning Tool Of All.

Children Are Prepared For Democracy By Being Led To Discuss Current Events Without First Learning The Systematic Subjects (politics, Economics, History) Which Are Necessary In Order To Discuss Them. The Mole Effect Is To Substitute Slogans And Superficial Opinion For Considered Individual Thought. And The Opinion Is That Of The Lowest Common Denominator Of The Group.

Mental Development Must Be Connected With Movement And Be Dependent On It. It Is Vital That Educational Theory And Practice Should Be Informed By That Idea.

An Educational Method That Shall Have Liberty As Its Basis Must Intervene To Help The Child To A Conquest Of Liberty. That Is To Say, His Training Must Be Such As Shall Help Him To Diminish As Much As Possible The Social Bonds Which Limit His Activity.

The Dogmatism Of Science Has Become A New Orthodoxy, Disseminated By The Media And A State Educational System With A Thoroughness And Subtlety Far Exceeding Anything Of The Kind Achieved By The Inquisition; To The Point That To Believe Today In A Miraculous Happening Like The Virgin Birth Is To Appear A Kind Of Imbecile.

When Mental Development Is Under Discussion, There Are Many Who Say, 'how Does Movement Come Into It? We Are Talking About The Mind.' And When We Think Of Intellectual Activity, We Always Imagine People Sitting Still, Motionless. But Mental Development Must Be Connected With Movement And Be Dependent On It. It Is Vital That Educational Theory And Practice Should Be Informed By That Idea.

Establishing Lasting Peace Is The Work Of Education; All Politics Can Do Is Keep Us Out Of War.