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* In modern times there are opposing views about the practice of education. There is no general agreement about what the young should learn either in relation to virtue or in relation to the best life; nor is it clear whether their education ought to be directed more towards the intellect than towards the character of the soul.... And it is not certain whether training should be directed at things useful in life, or at those conducive to virtue, or at non-essentials.... And there is no agreement as to what in fact does tend towards virtue. Men do not all prize most highly the same virtue, so naturally they differ also about the proper training for it. (unsourced)
* In modern times there are opposing views about the practice of education. There is no general agreement about what the young should learn either in relation to virtue or in relation to the best life; nor is it clear whether their education ought to be directed more towards the intellect than towards the character of the soul.... And it is not certain whether training should be directed at things useful in life, or at those conducive to virtue, or at non-essentials.... And there is no agreement as to what in fact does tend towards virtue. Men do not all prize most highly the same virtue, so naturally they differ also about the proper training for it. (unsourced)
==Epictetus==
==Epictetus (AD 55–AD 135)==
* Only the educated are free. (Discourses, Book II, ch. 1)
* Only the educated are free. (Discourses, Book II, ch. 1)
==Plutarch==
==Plutarch (c. 46 – 120 AD)==
* The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
* The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
==Daniel Defoe==
==Daniel Defoe (ca. 1659-1661–1731)==
* I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
* I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
:''The Education Of Women''
:''The Education Of Women''
==Edmund Burke==
==Edmund Burke (1729–1797)==
The Father of Conservatism, who is today just another lousy Liberal.
The Father of Conservatism, who is today just another lousy Liberal.
:''A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful'' (1757)
:''A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful'' (1757)
==Thomas Jefferson==
==Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)==
* Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
* Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
[http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/1832.htm Communication to the People of Sangamo County] (9 March 1832)
[http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/1832.htm Communication to the People of Sangamo County] (9 March 1832)
==William Blake==
==William Blake (1757–1827)==
* The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
* The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
==Oscar Wilde==
==Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)==
* Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
* Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
First published anonymously in the Saturday Review (17 November 1894)
First published anonymously in the Saturday Review (17 November 1894)
==John Dewey==
==John Dewey (1859–1952)==
* What the best and wisest parent wants for his child is what we should want for all the children of the community.
* What the best and wisest parent wants for his child is what we should want for all the children of the community.
''The School and Society'', 1900
''The School and Society'', 1900
==Maria Montessori (1870–1952==
==Maria Montessori (1870–1952)==
* The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
* The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
* Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
* Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
==John Alexander Smith==
==John Alexander Smith (1863–1939)==
* Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.
* Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.
Smith was Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University. Statement recorded in 1914.
Smith was Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University. Statement recorded in 1914.
==Pablo Picasso==
==Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)==
* I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
* I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
==Gandhi==
==Gandhi (1869–1948)==
* First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.<br>
* First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.<br>
* You must be the change you seek.
* You must be the change you seek.
==Albert Einstein==
==Albert Einstein (1879–1955)==
* It is almost a miracle that modern teaching methods have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom.
* It is almost a miracle that modern teaching methods have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom.
* I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
* I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
==Woodrow Wilson==
==Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)==
* I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
* I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
==Albert Szent-Gyorgy==
==Albert Szent-Gyorgy (1893–1986)==
Nobel laureate (biology/medicine)
Nobel laureate (biology/medicine)
* Discovery consists of seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
* Discovery consists of seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
==Robert A. Heinlein==
==Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988)==
* A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
* A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
==Robert Frost==
==Robert Frost (1874–1963)==
But yield who will to their separation,<br>
But yield who will to their separation,<br>
''Two Tramps In Mudtime''
''Two Tramps In Mudtime''
==Margaret Mead==
==Margaret Mead (1901–1978)==
* Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
* Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
==B. F. Skinner==
==B. F. Skinner (1904– 1990)==
* Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
* Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
==Jerome Bruner==
==Jerome Bruner (born 1915)==
* 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 (born 1927)==
* 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.
* The playfulness of childhood is the most demanding teacher we have.
* The playfulness of childhood is the most demanding teacher we have.
==Isaac Asimov==
==Isaac Asimov (1920–1992)==
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJAIERgWhZQ&feature=related Interview with Bill Moyers, World of Ideas, 1988]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJAIERgWhZQ&feature=related Interview with Bill Moyers, World of Ideas, 1988]
Individualized education via computers so that everybody can be interested in learning lifelong.
Individualized education via computers so that everybody can be interested in learning lifelong.
==Nelson Mandela==
==Nelson Mandela (born 1918)==
* Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
* Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
==Terry Pratchett==
==Terry Pratchett (born 1948)==
* When you light a fire for a man, you keep him warm for a night. When you set him on fire, you keep him warm for the rest of his life. (See Plutarch, above, if you don't get it.)
* When you light a fire for a man, you keep him warm for a night. When you set him on fire, you keep him warm for the rest of his life. (See Plutarch, above, if you don't get it.)
==Douglas Adams==
==Douglas Adams (1952–2001)==
* "And for all you unevolved lifeforms out there, the secret is, bang the rocks together."—''Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''
* "And for all you unevolved lifeforms out there, the secret is, bang the rocks together."—''Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''
==Edward Mokurai Cherlin==
==Edward Mokurai Cherlin (born 1946)==
* The essential capacity for discovery is the ability to visualize more than one part of an elephant that you have never seen.
* The essential capacity for discovery is the ability to visualize more than one part of an elephant that you have never seen.
=Negative=
=Negative=
==Johann Gottlieb Fichte==
==Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814)==
* You must fashion [the person], and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will.
* You must fashion [the person], and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will.
:''Addresses to the German Nation''
:''Addresses to the German Nation''
==John Stuart Mill==
==John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)==
* 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)
==Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)==
==Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens, 1835–1910)==
* In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards.
* In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards.
:''Following the Equator; Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar''
:''Following the Equator; Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar''
==Upton Sinclair==
==Upton Sinclair (1878–1968)==
* 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.
==Antoine de Saint-Exupéry==
==Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900—1944)==
* « Quand il naît par mutation dans les jardins une rose nouvelle, voilà tous les jardiniers qui s’émeuvent. On isole la rose, on cultive la rose, on la favorise. Mais il n’est point de jardinier pour les hommes. Mozart enfant sera marqué comme les autres par la machine à emboutir...Ce qui me tourmente,...c’est un peu, dans chacun de ces hommes, [http://www.burundibwacu.org/spip.php?article290 Mozart assassiné]. »
* « Quand il naît par mutation dans les jardins une rose nouvelle, voilà tous les jardiniers qui s’émeuvent. On isole la rose, on cultive la rose, on la favorise. Mais il n’est point de jardinier pour les hommes. Mozart enfant sera marqué comme les autres par la machine à emboutir...Ce qui me tourmente,...c’est un peu, dans chacun de ces hommes, [http://www.burundibwacu.org/spip.php?article290 Mozart assassiné]. »
* "When a mutant rose arises in a garden, all the gardeners rejoice. They give it a special place, they cultivate it, they bestow all their care on it. But there are no gardeners for people. An infant Mozart is marked just like all the others by the stamping press...What torments me is...in each of these people, a bit of Mozart murdered."
* "When a mutant rose arises in a garden, all the gardeners rejoice. They give it a special place, they cultivate it, they bestow all their care on it. But there are no gardeners for people. An infant Mozart is marked just like all the others by the stamping press...What torments me is...in each of these people, a bit of Mozart murdered."
==Richard Feynman==
==Richard Feynman (1918–1988)==
I got a telephone call from a pretty famous lawyer here in Pasadena, Mr. Norris, who was at that time on the State Board of Education. He asked me if I would serve on the State Curriculum Commission, which had to choose the new schoolbooks for the state of California...
I got a telephone call from a pretty famous lawyer here in Pasadena, Mr. Norris, who was at that time on the State Board of Education. He asked me if I would serve on the State Curriculum Commission, which had to choose the new schoolbooks for the state of California...
:[http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm Judging Books by Their Covers], in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)
:[http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm Judging Books by Their Covers], in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)
==Stephen Jay Gould==
==Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002)==
* 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''