If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., read more

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve
possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every read more

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. -Sir William Haley.

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this
age. There is another personage,--a read more

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this
age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in
the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is
abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the
soldier, in full military array.

The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what read more

The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. -Laurence Lee.

More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on read more

More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build alot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities. -Jonathan Kozol.

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence read more

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is read more

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.