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Real learning gets to the heart of what it means to be human. Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do. Through learning, we re-perceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life.
Peter Senge
There is no such thing as a neutral educational process. Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate the integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it, or it becomes the practice of freedom - the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with the reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
Paulo Freire
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was called cheating. The curriculum sent the clear message to me that learning was a highly individualistic, almost secretive endeavor.
Henry A. Giroux
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Theodore Roosevelt
Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.
Ivan Illich
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone’s knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
John Dewey
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry… I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether, it were hungry or not…
Albert Einstein
The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
Andre Gide
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Galileo Galilei
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry Brooks Adams
When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, “As much as the living are to the dead.”
Diogenes Laertius
When I think of what it means to teach, I no longer always think of instructions. I think again and again of creating a space and time where I/we can be present; ready to help in multiple ways – to soothe, to encourage, to demand of one or another, to do what is necessary at the moment, based on experience, on intuition, on insight, on needs and respect and care – or simply to witness, affirm, smile or cry as heartfelt.
Richard Pringle
In this world new challenges present themselves not only to educators but to everyone for whom contingency and loss of certainty do not necessarily mean the inevitable triumph of nihilism and despair but rather a state of possibility.
Henry Giroux and Paulo Freire
Education presupposes intrinsic motivation – that the student is intrinsically motivated to learn and the teacher intrinsically motivated to teach. While grades and the like are an important element to school structures, the reason for teaching and learning are not fueled by numbers – but by a sheer desire to attain knowledge for knowledge sake.
Barry Kanpol
Educators at all levels are in an ideal position to influence the world views of both children and adults. Children are actively developing their world views based on how they are treated and what they are told about the world.
Marsha L. Heck
Critical pedagogy considers how education can provide individuals with the tools to better themselves and strengthen democracy, to create a more egalitarian and just society, and thus to deploy education in a process of progressive social change.
Douglas Kellner
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
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