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“I loathed every day and regret every moment I spent in a school.”

Moments School Regret Educational

Author:Woody Allen

“I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.”

Taught Educational Unschooling

Author:Winston Churchill

“There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.”

People School Earth Educational Horrible Innocent Schooled Unschooling

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.”

Able School Remember Education Class Feet Educational Schooled Unschooling Schools And Education

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.”

Knows Facts Education Teaching Educational Educated Ritual Schooled Schools And Education School Education Teaching Education

Author:David P. Gardner

“How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.”

Should Ends Home School Term Hours Return Anxiety Educational Hated Unschooling

Author:Winston Churchill

“What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.”

People Want Needs May Different Teacher Teaching Appreciate Educational Educate

Book:Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others

Source: Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others

“Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill is daily spun, But there exists no loom to weave it into fabric.”

Enough Facts Age Lying Fall Hours Dark Sky Ill Educational Fabric Showers Gifted Spun Leeches Dark Hours

Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.”

Giving Remember Three Asks Answers Teach Teacher Possibility Students Educational Three Things Surpassing

Author:John Amos Comenius

“The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.”

Kind Problem Educational Select

Book:Experience and Education: The 60th Anniversary Edition

Source: Experience and Education: The 60th Anniversary Edition

“Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.”

Way May Education Teacher Educational Instruction Learners

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students.”

Done Students Educational

Author:Alfie Kohn

“Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.”

Teach Understood Educational Discernment

Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people.”

People Writing Important Winning Fire Fame Ordinary Educational Wit Prize Ordinary People Grandeur Prize Winning

Book:On Being a Teacher

Source: On Being a Teacher

“Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.”

Soul Action Ability Capacity Educational Insight Genuine Discouraging

Book:The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1903-1906

Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1903-1906

“I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.”

“Therefore only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge. Being dissatisfied with his own knowledge, one then realizes that the trouble lies with himself, and realizing the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledger.”

Feels Doe Said Lying Process Realizing Trouble Teaching Educational Uncomfortable Dissatisfied Inadequacy Teaching And Learning Teaching Others

Author:Confucius

“The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.”

Philosophy Literature Function Excellence Educational Related

Author:Aristotle

“In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.”

Philosophy Literature Easy Middle Tasks Educational Easy Tasks

Book:Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Nicomachean Ethics

“We must become just be doing just acts.”

Philosophy Literature Educational

Book:Aristotle's Ethics: Writings from the Complete Works

Source: Aristotle's Ethics: Writings from the Complete Works

“It is no easy task to be good.”

Philosophy Literature Easy Tasks Educational Be Good Good Education Easy Tasks

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.”

Ifs Life Should Trying Ends Philosophy Desire Literature Knowledge Influence Mark Aim Sake Determine Educational Good Will Outlines Archer Nicomachean Ethics Great Influence

Author:Aristotle

“Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.”

Thinking Philosophy Literature Educational

Book:Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Nicomachean Ethics

“If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.”

Ifs Humans Self Philosophy Literature Consciousness Educational Characteristics Capability Self Consciousness

Author:Albert Bandura

“Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.”

Way Doe Philosophy Literature Understanding Educational One Way

Book:The Culture of Education

Source: The Culture of Education

“Knowledge is justified belief.”

Philosophy Literature Belief Educational Justified

Author:Jerome Bruner

“Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.”

Philosophy Helping Literature Habit Educational

Book:The Culture of Education

Source: The Culture of Education

“Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.”

Love Philosophy Literature Love Is Educational Being In Love Spoil Spices Wise Man Once Said Loving Someone Love Is Like When You Love Someone When A Man Loves A Woman

Author:Confucius

“Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.”

Thinking Philosophy Literature Term Mankind Opposites Educational Extremes Likes

Book:Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

Source: Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

“Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.”

Philosophy Literature Teacher Skills Educational Agents

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

“Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.”

Philosophy Literature Growth Effects Educational Arresting

Book:Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

Source: Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

“It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.”

Children Philosophy Literature Difficult Principles Educational Concrete

Book:The Child and the Curriculum: Including the School and Society

Source: The Child and the Curriculum: Including the School and Society

“For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere”

Littles Philosophy Literature Rooms Sight Educational

Book:The Songs and Sonets of John Donne

Source: The Songs and Sonets of John Donne

“The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.”

People Thinking Way Ends Philosophy School Literature Education Knowing Function Educational Organs Sole Outstanding

Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.”

Love Mind Self Philosophy Might Passion Literature Teach Gains Educational Self Knowledge Pondering Epoch Love Passion

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love is an act of courage.”

Philosophy Literature Love Is Educational Acts Of Courage

Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“No reality transforms itself.”

Philosophy Reality Literature Educational

Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“Only through communication can human life hold meaning.”

Humans Philosophy Literature Communication Educational Human Life Hold Me Pedagogy Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate the home are authoritarian, rigid, and dominating, the home will increase the climate of oppression. As these authoritarian relations between parents and children intensify, children in their infancy increasingly internalize the paternal authority.”

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they must adapt to the precepts which have ben set from above. One of these precepts is not to think.”

Thinking Philosophy Home School Order Literature Achieve Students Satisfaction Educational Atmosphere

Author:Paulo Freire

“There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.”

Philosophy Facts Literature Teaching Educational Education And Teachers

Book:Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

Source: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

“Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.”

Littles Philosophy Literature Effort Moral Study Teacher Events Activity Authority Educational Classroom Coordinates Moral Authority

Book:Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

Source: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

“This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing and being sensitive to the experience of teaching as an art; being pushed forward by the challenges that prevent me from bureaucratizing my practice; accepting my limitations, yet always conscious of the necessary effort to overcome them and aware that I cannot hide them because to do so would be a failure to respect both my students and myself as a teacher.”

Source: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

“One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming.”

Philosophy Seems Literature Becoming Majors Educational Preoccupation Approximation

Book:Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

Source: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

“The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.'”

Thinking Philosophy Literature Roles Teaching Regard Possession Educational Educator Tranquil Certitude

Book:Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

Source: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

“Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.”

Sometimes Philosophy Literature Simple Teacher Teaching Effects Students Profound Educational Gestures Insignificant

Book:Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

Source: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

“No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that person to be absolutely incompetent, assuming a posture of disdain from my own position of false superiority.”

May Persons Self Matter Philosophy Literature My Own Position Importance Assuming Educational Superiority Posture Incompetent Disdain Puff Self-importance

Book:Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

Source: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

“It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for the identities that are in the process of construction, without taking into consideration the conditions in which they are living and the importance of the knowledge derived from life experience, which they bring with them to school. I can in no way underestimate such knowledge. Or what is worse, ridicule it.”

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Book:Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

Source: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

“Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.”

World Believe Philosophy Literature Youth Sake Educational

Book:Faust: a tragedy : backgrounds and sources, the author on the drama, contemporary reactions, modern criticism

Source: Faust: a tragedy : backgrounds and sources, the author on the drama, contemporary reactions, modern criticism

“If nobody loved, the sun would go out.”

Ifs Philosophy Literature Sun Educational

Author:Victor Hugo