Quotessence
Home / Topics / Educational Reform Quotes

Educational Reform Quotes

Browse 14 quotes about Educational Reform.

Educational Reform Quotes

“You can be an expert any field of study with consistent effort and consistent learning.”

EducationTeachLearningStudyTeachingExpertsConsistentEducateLearnEducational PhilosophyLearning From MistakesEducatorLearning ProcessEducational SystemExpertLearning To ReadLearning By DoingLearnedSubjectEducation KnowledgeEducational ReformLearning To ShineStudying ScienceTeaching Children PhilosophyEducational InequityConsistent ActionsExpert GuidanceStudy In CharacterConsistent EffortConsistent LearningExpert Beginner
Author:Lailah Gifty Akita
Create image

“Senator Collins and Speaker Bowling are two cuts or more above typical politicians. If all politicians modeled their examples, we’d have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”

GovernmentValuesLeadershipResponsibilityPolicyTraditionPublic ServiceCurriculumEducational ReformThe Three Rs
Book:James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children
Create image

“It is amazing how dispiriting it can be to enter a learning environment and to be made immediately to suppress your own exploratory inclinations. So many learning environments in the world are still like this. Don’t question what you are taught! Just listen and get good marks on the test! It conditions us to be slaves. The minute we abandon our inquisitive nature, we cede our consciences to the whims of tyrants. We are capable of better. We owe it to ourselves and each other to create better opportunities that enhance human potential. Education is the externality that allows for this, but our methods of education must promote self-guidance and self-reliance.”

EducationSelf HelpTyrannyOppressionEducational PhilosophySelf RelianceSelf GrowthSuppressionDronesHuman PotentialHegemonySlavesEducational ReformExploratory LearningExternalityInquistive NatureSelf GuidanceSpirit Breaking
Book:Sinew of the Social Species
Create image

“[There is] no direct relationship between IQ and economic opportunity. In the supposed interests of fairness and “social justice”, the natural relationship has been all but obliterated. Consider the first necessity of employment, filling out a job application. A generic job application does not ask for information on IQ. If such information is volunteered, this is likely to be interpreted as boastful exaggeration, narcissism, excessive entitlement, exceptionalism [...] and/or a lack of team spirit. None of these interpretations is likely to get you hired. Instead, the application contains questions about job experience and educational background, neither of which necessarily has anything to do with IQ. Universities are in business for profit; they are run like companies, seek as many paying clients as they can get, and therefore routinely accept people with lukewarm IQ’s, especially if they fill a slot in some quota system (in which case they will often be allowed to stay despite substandard performance). Regarding the quotas themselves, these may in fact turn the tables, advantaging members of groups with lower mean IQ’s than other groups [...] sometimes, people with lower IQ’s are expressly advantaged in more ways than one. These days, most decent jobs require a college education. Academia has worked relentlessly to bring this about, as it gains money and power by monopolizing the employment market across the spectrum. Because there is a glut of college-educated applicants for high-paying jobs, there is usually no need for an employer to deviate from general policy and hire an applicant with no degree. What about the civil service? While the civil service was once mostly open to people without college educations, this is no longer the case, and quotas make a very big difference in who gets hired. Back when I was in the New York job market, “minorities” (actually, worldwide majorities) were being spotted 30 (thirty) points on the civil service exam; for example, a Black person with a score as low as 70 was hired ahead of a White person with a score of 100. Obviously, any prior positive correlation between IQ and civil service employment has been reversed. Add to this the fact that many people, including employers, resent or feel threatened by intelligent people [...] and the IQ-parameterized employment function is no longer what it was once cracked up to be. If you doubt it, just look at the people running things these days. They may run a little above average, but you’d better not be expecting to find any Aristotles or Newtons among them. Intelligence has been replaced in the job market with an increasingly poor substitute, possession of a college degree, and given that education has steadily given way to indoctrination and socialization as academic priorities, it would be naive to suppose that this is not dragging down the overall efficiency of society. In short, there are presently many highly intelligent people working very “dumb” jobs, and conversely, many less intelligent people working jobs that would once have been filled by their intellectual superiors. Those sad stories about physics PhD’s flipping burgers at McDonald's are no longer so exceptional. Sorry, folks, but this is not your grandfather’s meritocracy any more.”

EducationGeniusEconomicsIntelligencePhysicsConservatismSelf EducationModern SocietyIqEducational Reform
Author:Christopher Langan
Create image

“Educational reform over the last century - including, throughout Western democracies, standardised testing, moves to national curriculums, and competitive tertiary entry scores, sems to work on behalf of employers and parent-investors first, allowing them to efficiently read a young person's future without having to go to the trouble of listening to her. Education, from kindergarten coaching to big-ticket degrees, increasingly relies on the professionalisation of childhood and youth.”

EducationEducational Reform
Book:Adult Fantasy: Searching for True Maturity in an Age of Mortgages, Marriages, and Other Adult Milestones
Create image

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

InspirationalSelfInspirationCultureAbilityEducationKnowledgeLearningTeacherListeningDiversityLosingAngerPatienceSocial JusticeIntelligenceEducationalSelf ConfidenceThought ProvokingTemperEducation SystemSelf EducationBest TeacherSchooledEducational SystemHomeschoolingGreat EducationCollege EducationEducation And TeachersSchools And EducationSchool EducationGreat EducationalTeacher StudentChildren LearningTeacher And StudentInspirational EducationKnowledge EducationBeing A TeacherEducation And KnowledgeChildren EducationStudents And EducationChildren And EducationInspirational EducationalEducation And LiteracyValue Of EducationKnowledge LearningPurpose Of EducationImportance Of EducationTeachers Learning From StudentsWhat Is EducationBad TemperLiteracy And ChildrenAcademic EducationUniversity EducationBoard Of EducationGreat KnowledgeMotivational EducationIntelligence And EducationEducational ChangeTeachers From KidsEffective TeachingEducational Reform
Author:Robert Frost
Create image

“We came to recognize that our initial thinking about the keys to educational reform was wrong. The key variables weren't pedagogical. They weren't financial. They weren't curricular. They weren't research. They weren't any of the usual things we've always talked about as the engines of change. The variables were deeply emotional and cultural.”

ThinkingEmotionalKeysResearchFinancialEducationalReformUsualEnginesInitialsVariablesEducational Reform
Author:David Edward
Create image

“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”

LifeYoungEducationTechnologyLearningTeacherTeachingObjectsAppreciationEducationalEducatedEducateEducation SystemSelf EducationEducational SystemTeaching ChildrenGreat EducationTeaching And LearningEducation And TeachersSchools And EducationGreat EducationalTeaching And EducationTeaching EducationTeacher StudentTeaching LearningChildren LearningTeacher And StudentInspirational EducationGreat TeachingGood TeachingChildren EducationStudents And EducationStudent LearningChildren And EducationInspirational EducationalTrue EducationValue Of EducationPurpose Of EducationFree EducationInspiring EducationTeaching StudentsRelated To EducationTeachers Learning From StudentsWhat Is EducationAdult EducationAcademic EducationInspiring EducationalAim Of EducationYoung StudentsEducational ChangeInspirational SchoolEnglish EducationAdult LearningEducated MindEducating ChildrenEducational ReformTechnical EducationEducating The Young
Author:Robert M. Hutchins
Create image

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”

HumansRaceEducationTeachHistoryTeacherTeachingIgnoranceHumorousProfoundWittyAppreciationEducationalInsaneHistorianCatastropheHuman HistoryEducation SystemGreat TeacherEducational SystemGreat EducationTeaching And LearningEducation And TeachersGreat EducationalTeaching And EducationTeachers And TeachingTeaching EducationTeaching LearningGreat TeachingTeacher AppreciationPhilosophy Of EducationAdult EducationTeacher MotivationalHistory TeacherAdult LearningEducational ReformLearning EnvironmentTeaching History
Author:H. G. Wells
Create image

“We recognize that real educational reform is essential if today's and tomorrow's children are to live in a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world.”

IfsWorldChildrenRealTodayCommunicationTomorrowEssentialsEducationalPeacefulReformNonviolent CommunicationEducational Reform
Book:Life-enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships
Create image