Democratic Education Quotes
Posted on May 01, 2010 - 03:17 PM by admin
"The authority of those who teach is very often a hindrance to those who wish to learn."
- Cicero
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Posted on May 01, 2010 - 03:16 PM by admin
"Nobody grew taller by being measured."
- Philip Gammage, professor of early childhood education
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Posted on May 01, 2010 - 03:15 PM by admin
"My teachers could have been Jesse James for all the time they stole from me."
- Natalie Goldberg
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Posted on May 01, 2010 - 03:14 PM by admin
"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."
- Jacob Brownowski, British mathematician and biologist
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Posted on May 01, 2010 - 03:13 PM by admin
"When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling."
- John Taylor Gatto
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Posted on May 01, 2010 - 03:11 PM by admin
"My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects."
- Robert Maynard Hutchins
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Posted on May 01, 2010 - 03:11 PM by admin
"The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things."
- Plato
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Posted on May 01, 2010 - 03:10 PM by admin
"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."
- Daniel J. Boorstin, historian
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Posted on May 01, 2010 - 03:10 PM by admin
"My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school."
- Margaret Mead
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Posted on May 01, 2010 - 03:09 PM by admin
"I am 39 years old, and I still wake up every morning really excited I don't have to go to school."
- Sarah Silverman
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