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“Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.”

Way Writing Use Language Education Labels Phrases Literacy

Author:Lucy Calkins

“All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”

Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions

“There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.”

Language Education Liberal Education

Author:Agnes Repplier

“I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.”

Art Found Language Grief Education Mines Development Activity Including I Realized Classroom Coffins Burial Language Arts Language Development

Author:Mem Fox

“Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.”

World Language Education Trouble Speech Weakness Occasions Defects Misunderstanding

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“You can't treat Russia like a guilty schoolboy who has to put a cross on a piece of paper to show he has done his homework. That kind of language is unacceptable.”

Kind Done Shows Politics Language Leadership Justice Education Pieces Policy Paper Ethics Crosses Treats Trade Strategy Russia Guilty Ideology Foreign Policy Diplomacy Civility Homework

Author:Dmitry Peskov

“I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.”

Source: Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.”

“If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational problem there.”

Ifs Mean Problem Culture Language Education Youth Serious Civilization Educational Ancestor

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.”

World Art Language Education Mythology Liberal Education

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”

“I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.”

Made Reality Life Is Language Decision Education Design Direct Behaviorism

Author:B. F. Skinner

“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.”

“Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.”

Giving Children Language Education Shapes Give Me Behaviorism

Author:B. F. Skinner

“Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.”

Way Language Understanding Born Education Our Lives Blame Accidents Wrong Way Behaviorism

Book:WALDEN TWO

Source: WALDEN TWO

“A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.”

May Doe Language Process Education Violence Reader Grades Devices Fourth Mathematician Administrative Developmental Sixth Grade Fourth Grade Behaviorism

Book:WALDEN TWO

Source: WALDEN TWO

“No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.”

Dies Asks Language Force Education Baby Curiosity Tendencies Restraining Behaviorism

Book:WALDEN TWO

Source: WALDEN TWO

“The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.”

Men Language Education Genius Offers Chaos Behaviorism

Book:WALDEN TWO

Source: WALDEN TWO

“He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.”

Names Language Education Ignorance Horse Educational Nine Ignorant Cows Poor Richard

Book:Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom

Source: Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom

“It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.”

Use Language Education Teacher

Author:Saint Augustine

“The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'”

Way Done Spiritual Language Education Awareness Phrases Peer Pressure

Author:Grace Hopper

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