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==Jerome Bruner==

==Jerome Bruner==

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

* We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

The Process of Education (1960)

The Process of Education (1960)

==Marvin Minsky==

==Marvin Minsky==

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

* You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

==Edward Mokurai Cherlin==

==Edward Mokurai Cherlin==

The essential capacity for discovery is the ability to visualize more than one part of an elephant at a time.

* The essential capacity for discovery is the ability to visualize more than one part of an elephant at a time.

=Negative=

=Negative=

==John Stuart Mill==

==John Stuart Mill==

A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body. An education established and controlled by the State should only exist, if it exists at all, as one among many competing experiments...

* A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body. An education established and controlled by the State should only exist, if it exists at all, as one among many competing experiments...

On Liberty (1859)

On Liberty (1859)

==Upton Sinclair==

==Upton Sinclair==

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

* It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (1935), ISBN 0-520-08198-6; repr. University of California Press, 1994, p. 109.

I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (1935), ISBN 0-520-08198-6; repr. University of California Press, 1994, p. 109.

==Stephen Jay Gould==

==Stephen Jay Gould==

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

* We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

— The Mismeasure of Man

 

The Mismeasure of Man