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Food for thought.... By Martha 04/24/02 12:27:48 PM

Date: 04/24/02 12:27:48 PM
Name: Martha
Email: mulkie@rutchem.rutgers.edu
Subject: Food for thought....

Various Quotes about Education

"For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to learn." W.C. Sellar

"There is too much education, especially in American schools." A. Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." A. Einstein

"In the case of standardized tests, not only are the tests themselves disputed but also the meaning of the results." Prof. Joel Spring

"There is no agreed-upon standard of knowledge in any academic field--an issue that most test companies try to avoid." Prof. Joel Spring

"It is nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." A. Einstein

"What does it mean to read at grade level? Since 'grade level' is an artificial construct, the idea that all students should master a given body of knowledge by a particular grade level is also artificial. But in order for educators and officials to gain professional acceptance, and in order for the public to accept the use of standardized tests, everyone concerned must act as though there really were such a uniform body of knowledge." Prof. Joel Spring

"Little substantive learning takes place in our schools as they are now organized." Adam Robinson

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates." Henry Adams

"The order in the world and the universe is as likely to have been caused by a random big bang, as an explosion in a print shop is likely to produce a complete unabridged dictionary." A. Einstein

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." A. Einstein

"Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." Oscar Wilde

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious." A. Einstein

"We have multiplied a hundred times our ability to report the events of the day, but at times we envy our ancestors whose peace was only gently disturbed by the news of their village." Will & Ariel Durant

"It is not that schools fail, but that they truly do not have the power to reform society and save the economic system." Prof. Joel Spring

"I am always ready to learn but I do not always like being taught." Winston Churchill

"I believe in teaching, but I don't believe in going to school." Robert Frost

"The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions." Max Beerhohm

"Education separates a child from the daily content of life." John Taylor Gatto

"I saw the angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free." Michaelangelo

"Due to its emphasis on competition institutional education leaves a large population of losers damned to the self-concept that they cannot succeed no matter what they have a heart to do." John Taylor Gatto

"You cannot teach a person anything; you can only help him find it within himself." Galileo

"I never let schooling interfere with my education." Mark Twain

"Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire." William Butler Yeats

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." A. Einstein

"A student should not be taught more than he can think about." Alfred North Whitehead

"All thought is a feat of association." Robert Frost

"I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me." Winnie the Pooh

"The educational goal of preparing citizens for participation in a democracy has been replaced by that of preparing them for employment." Prof. Joel Spring

"Posterity: You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." John Quincy Adams

"We have admitted no substantial change in man's nature during historical times. Everything man does different is merely new means of achieving old ends." Historians Will & Ariel Durant

"I have no respect for a man who can spell a word only one way." Mark Twain

"In the beginning, God created idiots. That was for practice. Then He created school boards." Mark Twain