Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [81-100] of 416 Education quotesEducation QuotesEducation Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down.~ Ellwood P. Cubberley To be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.~ e. e. cummings I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: "Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?~ Leonardo da Vinci The desire to know is natural to good men.~ Leonardo da Vinci One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.~ Leonardo da Vinci Anyone who argues by referring to authority is not using his mind but rather his memory.~ Leonardo da Vinci There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult guidance and so attuned to a peer world. We have removed grown-up wisdom and allowed them to drift into a self-constructed, highly relativistic world of friendship and peers.~ William Damon The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is and will always be a wild animal.~ Charles Darwin The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank.~ Charles Darwin Government schools can't teach reading, writing, and arithmetic -- why should we trust them to teach morality, respect, and character? If public education does for ethics what it's done for learning, we'll end up with a generation of immoral, disrespectful, and characterless students.~ Steve Dasbach I claim for the nation an education that depends only on the State, because children of the State must be raised by members of the State.~ Louis-René de Caradeuc de La Chalotais I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.~ Michel de Montaigne If librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas – and I believe that is the truest definition of what we do – it is crucial to remember that we must keep and make available, not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas, silly ideas, and yes, even dangerous or wicked ideas.~ Graceanne A. Decandido We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. ... The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electronically control the brain. Someday armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain.~ Dr. Jose Delgado We are opposed to state interference with parental rights and rights of conscience in the education of children as an infringement of the fundamental Democratic doctrine that the largest individual liberty consistent with the rights of others insures the highest type of American citizenship and the best government.~ Democratic National Platform of 1892 Today's Democratic Party knows our children's education is not complete unless they learn good values. We applaud the efforts of the Clinton-Gore Administration to promote character education in our schools. Teaching good values, strong character, and the responsibilities of citizenship must be an essential part of American education.~ Democratic Party Platform of 1996 Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.~ John Dewey Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.~ John Dewey The teacher is engaged not simply in the training of individuals, but in the formation of the proper social life.... In this way, the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer-in of the true Kingdom of God.~ John Dewey The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.~ Diogenes Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print