“Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.” ShouldRealSelfSchoolHumanityEducationTeacherConfusionLinksEducateSelflessnessInspirational TeacherPurpose Of EducationReal Education Author:Nancy Astor
“To find out what we presently are and where we are going, we must know what we have been and what others have done; and this, because the humanities are at once the creation and the interpreters of the past, is the great purpose of humanistic scholarship.” KnowsHas BeensDonePastPurposeHumanityEducationCreationScholarshipInterpreterHumanistic Author:Howard Mumford Jones
“Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to "real" people and everyday events--knew what intellectual experience made for true humanity. He suggested that the future citizens of his ideal republic begin their literary education with the telling of myths, rather than with mere facts or so-called rational teachings.” PeopleMenWantMindMayChildrenMadeRealFactsFormHumanityEducationTeachingEventsCitizensIntellectualUnderstoodIdealsMereEverydayMythRationalRepublicExposedPlato Book:The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales Source: The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales
“At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.” PeopleIfsShowsSchoolNightHumanityEducationHalfMillionsGenerationsFrontsTaughtCollegeHundredPoliceLawyerSeatsWickedInstructionOppressedWorldlyNeglectedRespectableBourgeoisMy GenerationYoungstersFreshmanBartenderGiddyMidwifeLieutenantsSophomoreWorldly WisdomCollege Freshmen Author:H. L. Mencken
“I don't want to convince you that mathematics is useful. It is, but utility is not the only criterion for value to humanity. Above all, I want to convince you that mathematics is beautiful, surprising, enjoyable, and interesting. In fact, mathematics is the closest that we humans get to true magic. How else to describe the patterns in our heads that - by some mysterious agency - capture patterns of the universe around us? Mathematics connects ideas that otherwise seem totally unrelated, revealing deep similarities that subsequently show up in nature.” WantHumansIdeasFactsShowsSeemsBeautifulValuesHumanityUniverseInterestingEducationMagicMathematicsPatternsMathMysteriousAgencyConvinceCaptureSurprisingClosestRevealingEnjoyableCriteriaUtilitySimilarity Author:Ian Stewart
“Our teaching of mathematics revolves around a fundamental conflict. Rightly or wrongly, students are required to master a series of mathematical concepts and techniques, and anything that might divert them from doing so is deemed unnecessary. Putting mathematics into its cultural context, explaining what is has done for humanity, telling the story of its historical development, or pointing out the wealth of unsolved problems or even the existence of topics that do not make it into school textbooks leaves less time to prepare for the exam. So most of these things aren't discussed.” DoneStoriesProblemMightSchoolHumanityWealthExistenceEducationTeachingStudentsMastersDevelopmentConflictConceptsMathematicsFundamentalsHistoricalSeriesMathTechniqueMathematicalUnnecessaryTopicsPointingExplainingTextbooksExamUnsolved Problems Author:Ian Stewart
“The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.” HumanityEducationClassAimIsolatedPhilosophicAim Of Education Author:Paul Goodman
“It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.” HeartArtHumanityResultsEducationTechnologyMarriedYieldLiberal Arts Author:Steve Jobs
“Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.” HumansWellsWarSufferingHumanityPeaceEducationKnownDignityBreadShelterRiceHuman DignityUbuntuPeacemakingBeing At PeaceEnding PovertyWorld HungerLong SufferingWar On PovertyHunger PovertyHealth And Education Author:Ralph Bunche
“Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?” ShouldBookRealHumanityEducationStudentsGoodnessSocial JusticeEducationalDrawingReal Education Author:Cesar Chavez
“Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?” PeopleIfsShouldHumansHelpingHumanityJusticeHuman BeingsRaceEducationClassDiversitySurvivalBiggerSocial JusticeSalaryWhat Is Education Author:Beah Richards