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“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”

“Self-education only produces expressions of self.”

Self Education Produce Expression Self Education

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“I don't think that I need to tell you how important to the outcome of that race is the education legislation that is now before the Congress. I hope that it is important enough that most of you have studied it in detail. I hope that you understand that it represents the very best thinking that the leading educators of this country can produce.”

Thinking Needs Important Country Enough Race Education Produce Congress Details Outcomes Legislation Educator

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

“Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.”

Life Children Seems Individual Effort Education Learning Produce Educational Everlasting Schooling Schooled Antagonism School Education

Book:Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature

Source: Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature

“Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.”

Ends Age Sides Education Produce Genius Indispensable

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.”

Men Art Country Age Education Share Produce Models Originality Usage

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“Good education is linked with good teachers. We need to think how we can have good teachers. India has the capability to produce & export as many teachers to the World as it needs. We need to think about how we can create an environment where children want to become good teachers.”

Thinking World Want Needs Children Education Environment Teacher Produce India Capability Linked Good Teacher Good Education

Author:Narendra Modi

“Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.”

Results Education Produce Racism Discrimination Racist Housing Attacking

Book:Point of the lance

Source: Point of the lance

“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”

“I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.”

Source: An autobiography

“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.”

“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

“Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.”

People School Cities Education Responsibility Produce Access Educated Inner City Formal Education Educated Person

Author:James L. Farmer, Jr.

“To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.”

Self Seems School Force Sound Education Worst Subjects Produce Authority Method Intelligence Self Confidence Treatment Sentiments Sincerity Artificial Worst Things Pupils Subservient

Author:Albert Einstein

“The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.”

Thinking Trying Wells Past Community Ability Education Vision Produce Fit Future Well Being Urges Visions Of The Future Knowledge Of The Past

Author:Virginia Gildersleeve

“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?

“A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.”

Mind Children School Education Teaching Produce Graduates Crippled School System

Author:Malcolm X