Democratic Education Quotes
Posted on May 01, 2010 - 03:09 PM by admin
"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."
- Maria Montessori
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Posted on May 01, 2010 - 03:08 PM by admin
"Our education system is impoverishing our spirits as much as fast food is depleting our bodies."
- Sir Ken Robinson
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Posted on May 01, 2010 - 03:07 PM by admin
"The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves."
- Elliot W. Eisner, Stanford University
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Posted on May 01, 2010 - 03:01 PM by admin
"Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner."
- John Lubbock
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Posted on May 01, 2010 - 03:00 PM by admin
"Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve."
- Roger Lewin
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Posted on May 01, 2010 - 03:00 PM by admin
"Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer: into a selflessness which links us with all humanity."
- Lady Nancy Astor, first female member of the British Parliament
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Posted on May 01, 2010 - 02:59 PM by admin
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."
- John Dewey
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Posted on May 01, 2010 - 02:59 PM by admin
"I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cab driver. Then they would really be educated."
- Al McGuire
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Posted on May 01, 2010 - 02:58 PM by admin
"They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing."
- Richard Yates
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Posted on May 01, 2010 - 02:58 PM by admin
"When a subject becomes totally obsolete, we make it a required course."
- Peter Drucker
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