Quotes about "Education & Learning"

The extent of our progress in the cultivation of knowledge is unlimited. ”

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth. ”

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families. ”

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship. ”

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. ”

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture. ”

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. ”

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement. ”

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve. ”

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. ”