Leonardo da Vinci:
Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so study without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.
Prince Charles (2004):
"What is wrong with everyone nowadays? Why do they all seem to think they are qualified to do things far beyond their technical capabilities? This is to do with the learning culture in schools as a consequence of child-centred system which admits no failure. People think they can all be pop stars, High Court judges, brilliant TV personalities or infinitely more competent heads of state without ever putting in the necessary work or having natural ability. This is the result of social utopianism which believes humanity can be genetically and socially engineered to contradict the lessons of history." - [and they say the art of irony is dead]
Robert Frost:
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
Horace Mann:
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equaliser of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
H. L. Mencken:
School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.
Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so study without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.
Prince Charles (2004):
"What is wrong with everyone nowadays? Why do they all seem to think they are qualified to do things far beyond their technical capabilities? This is to do with the learning culture in schools as a consequence of child-centred system which admits no failure. People think they can all be pop stars, High Court judges, brilliant TV personalities or infinitely more competent heads of state without ever putting in the necessary work or having natural ability. This is the result of social utopianism which believes humanity can be genetically and socially engineered to contradict the lessons of history." - [and they say the art of irony is dead]
Robert Frost:
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
Horace Mann:
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equaliser of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
H. L. Mencken:
School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.
Martin H. Fischer:
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
John Holt:
I say above all else don't let your home become [a] miniature copy of the school. No lesson plans, no quizzes, no tests, no report cards! even leaving your child alone would be better; at least they would figure out some things on their own. Live together as well as you can; enjoy life together as much as you can.
It is hard not to feel that there must be something very wrong with much of what we do in school, if we feel the need to worry so much about what many people call 'motivation'. A child has no stronger desire than to make sense of the world, to move freely in it, to do the things that he sees bigger people doing.
When they learn in their own way and for their own reasons, children learn so much more rapidly and effectively than we could possibly teach them, that we can afford to throw away our curricula and our timetables, and set them free, at least most of the time, to learn on their own.
What is essential is to realise is that children learn independently, not in bunches; that they learn out of interest and curiosity, not to please or appease the adults in power; and that they ought to be in control of their own learning, deciding for themselves what they want to learn and how they want to learn it.
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
Henry Adams:
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
John Holt:
I say above all else don't let your home become [a] miniature copy of the school. No lesson plans, no quizzes, no tests, no report cards! even leaving your child alone would be better; at least they would figure out some things on their own. Live together as well as you can; enjoy life together as much as you can.
It is hard not to feel that there must be something very wrong with much of what we do in school, if we feel the need to worry so much about what many people call 'motivation'. A child has no stronger desire than to make sense of the world, to move freely in it, to do the things that he sees bigger people doing.
When they learn in their own way and for their own reasons, children learn so much more rapidly and effectively than we could possibly teach them, that we can afford to throw away our curricula and our timetables, and set them free, at least most of the time, to learn on their own.
What is essential is to realise is that children learn independently, not in bunches; that they learn out of interest and curiosity, not to please or appease the adults in power; and that they ought to be in control of their own learning, deciding for themselves what they want to learn and how they want to learn it.
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
Henry Adams:
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.
Aristotle:
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
James Baldwin:
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him.
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
Alec Bourne:
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Adolf Hitler:
"My ideal of education is hard. Whatever is weak must be hammered away. In the fortresses of my militant order a generation of young people will grow to strike fear into the heart of the world. Violent, masterful, unafraid, cruel youth is what I want. Young people must be all that. They must withstand pain. There must be nothing weak or tender about them. The free--magnificent predator must flash from their eyes again. I want them strong and beautiful...That way I can fashion things anew."
Joseph Stalin:
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
James Baldwin:
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him.
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
Alec Bourne:
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Adolf Hitler:
"My ideal of education is hard. Whatever is weak must be hammered away. In the fortresses of my militant order a generation of young people will grow to strike fear into the heart of the world. Violent, masterful, unafraid, cruel youth is what I want. Young people must be all that. They must withstand pain. There must be nothing weak or tender about them. The free--magnificent predator must flash from their eyes again. I want them strong and beautiful...That way I can fashion things anew."
Joseph Stalin:
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed
