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“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.”

Ifs Believe Littles Force I Believe Education Modern Holy Healthy Miracle Method Curiosity Hungry Beast Instruction Inquiry Prey Whips

Author:Albert Einstein

“I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Success Education Failing Vain Idiot

Book:Hesketh Pearson by Himself. (1. Ed.)

Source: Hesketh Pearson by Himself. (1. Ed.)

“In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.”

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way.”

Ifs Way Inspirational Feels Has Beens Past Individual Mistake Education Teaching Subjects Century Students Treats Justified Biggest Mistake

Author:Howard Gardner

“If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.”

“If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.”

Ifs Mind Ideas Education Special Dangerous Commitment Independent Excess

Book:Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

“Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.”

Ifs Giving Age Young Grows Education Comfortable Plant Shade Shelter Retreat

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.”

Ifs Mind Wells Heart Sin Education Duty Commit God Love Cultivation

Book:On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters

Source: On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters

“In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.”

“The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.”

“If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.”

Ifs Thinking Way Needs Long Ideas Hard Happens Goal Education Poverty Hard Work Basketball Things Happen Practicals Lasting Willingness Realistic Long Lasting Realistic Goals Lasting Change

Book:Kareem

Source: Kareem

“If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.”

“I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?”

People Ifs Humor Education Wonder Comedy Effects Intelligence Comedian Soup Alphabet Illiterate Funny Comedian Alphabet Soup

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.”

Ifs Firsts School Given Mistake Education Streets Lessons Intelligence Up To You

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything -- from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.”

Ifs Way Want Whole Hands School Courses Education Teach Teacher College Essence Intelligence Grades Convince Instruction Originality Sophisticated Imitating Bad Grades

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.”

Source: Be the Change: Reinventing School for Student Success

“Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.”

Ifs Work Education Advice

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.”

Ifs School Change Education Policy High School Agree Tragic Bad Business Redesign

Author:Melinda Gates

“All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.”

Ifs Knows Life Long Ideas Moving Education Learning Growing Skills Excellence Insight Long Life Learners Achiever Teaching Learning New Skills Learning New Skills

Author:Denis Waitley

“I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.”

Ifs Believe Inspiration Motivation I Believe Grows Education Creativity Learning Educational Educated Creativity In Education

Author:Ken Robinson

“I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.”

Ifs Want Needs Art Parent My Own Education Teach Teacher Share Teaching Mines Brother Equal Partners Swear Fees Livelihood

Book:Ancient Medicine, Airs, Waters, Places, Epidemics 1 and 3, the Oath, Precepts, Nutriment

Source: Ancient Medicine, Airs, Waters, Places, Epidemics 1 and 3, the Oath, Precepts, Nutriment

“Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.”

Ifs Real Facts School Difficult Education Teacher Teaching Information Produce Impression Understand Me Procurement Useful Information

Book:What is called thinking?

Source: What is called thinking?

“If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.”

Ifs Knows Education Knowledge Teach Teacher Teaching Advice Torture Educator Best Teacher Great Teaching Teaching Others Teachers From Kids

Book:The New Dictionary of Thoughts

Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts

“I can not imagine my life if I didn't have a music program in my school.”

Ifs I Can School Education Imagine Program Can Not

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.”

Ifs Knows Life Made Education Vision Knowledge Knowing Learning Our Lives Seeing Settling Awe Unwilling

Author:Kurt Hahn

“If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.”

Ifs Ends Use Action Numbers Business Education Computer Managers Good Man Initiative Procrastination Decisiveness Timetables Good Manager

Author:Lee Iacocca

“If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all.”

Ifs Education Nice Gossip Say Anything

Author:Aesop

“If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.”

Ifs Way Inspiring Education Teach Learning Psychology Teacher Method Autism Relevance Teaching Children Children Learning Psychopathology

Author:Ole Ivar Lovaas

“More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build a lot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities.”

Ifs Mean Children School Reading Nations Justice Deals Education Diversity Social Justice Suicide Prison Inequality Description More Money Bent Literacy

Author:Jonathan Kozol

“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?”

People Ifs Should Humans Helping Humanity Justice Human Beings Race Education Class Diversity Survival Bigger Social Justice Salary What Is Education

Author:Beah Richards

“A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him.”

Ifs Way Giving Education Attitude Opinion Teach Teacher Students Taught Benefits Regard Educational Disciple Worthless Pupils Rapport True Teacher

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.”

“Education is critical for people to become compassionate. If you don't know the problem and you don't know the reality, how can you help?”

People Ifs Knows Helping Problem Reality Education Youth Educational Critical Compassionate

Author:Marla Ruzicka

“Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1994

“If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.”

Ifs Feels Mean Made Mistake Education Parenting Educational Made A Mistake

Author:Albert Einstein

“If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.”

Ifs Children School Parent Education One Thing Involved Agree Educational Get Involved Educator

Author:William Bennett

“I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Education Wonder Learning Stupid Fool Humorous Should Have Intelligence Educational Should Have Been Unschooling

Author:Alice James

“IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE”

Ifs Children Motivational Values Parent Education Family Gratitude Parenting Educational Enthusiasm Parenthood Estates Being Thankful Inventor Raising Children Upbringing

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.”

“If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.”

“Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.”

Ifs Children Reason Education Fine Reasoning Destroying

Author:John Mason Brown

“The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example.”

Ifs Way Helping Interesting Education Teaching Example Rational Warning

Book:Ideas and Opinions

Source: Ideas and Opinions

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