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We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, read more
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam
Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam
Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
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.
