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2011 May 20
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"True education makes for inequality;
the inequality of individuality,
the inequality of success,
the glorious inequality of talent, of genius;
for inequality, not mediocrity,
individual superiority, not standardization,
is the measure of the progress of the world." |
"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained." |
"The trouble with most folks
isn't so much their ignorance,
as knowing so many things
that ain't so." |
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2011 May 19
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"Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being." |
"To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave." |
"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life." |
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2011 May 18
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"No use to shout at them to pay attention.
If the situations, the materials,
the problems before the child do not interest him,
his attention will slip off to what does interest him,
and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back." |
"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." |
"God made the Idiot for practice,
and then He made the School Board." |
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2011 May 17
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"I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time." |
"I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it has been copied, I believe, by nearly every college and academy in the United States. That is, the holding the students all to one prescribed course of reading, and disallowing exclusive application to those branches only which are to qualify them for the particular vocations to which they are destined. We shall, on the contrary, allow them uncontrolled choice in the lectures they shall choose to attend, and require elementary qualification only, and sufficient age." |
"Above all things I hope the education of the common people
will be attended to, convinced that on their good sense
we may rely with the most security for the preservation
of a due degree of liberty." |
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2011 May 16
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"Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars." |
"The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together." |
"Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change." |
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