“Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy. Any subject matter which accomplishes this result is humane, and any subject matter which does not accomplish it is not even educational.” HumansDoeMatterPastResultsQualitySubjectsProductsEducationalAccomplishLiberatingHumaneSubject MatterHuman IntelligenceHumanistic Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors
“These economic, social, cultural and educational causes of opportunity inequality are complex. And they will not be solved by continuing with the same stale Washington ideas. Five decades and trillions of dollars after President Johnson waged his War on Poverty, the results of this big-government approach are in.” IdeasWarBigsGovernmentOpportunitySocialCausesPresidentResultsPovertyFiveEconomicApproachDollarsComplexesEducationalDecadesInequalityContinuingJohnsonStaleBig GovernmentWar On PovertyPresident Johnson Author:Marco Rubio
“The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to a lesser degree, of the aesthetic emotions. Most of us have forgotten that we are not only brain and will, senses and feelings; we are also spirit. Modern man has for the most part lost touch with the truest and highest aspect of himself; and the result of this inward alienation can be seen all too plainly in his restlessness, his lack of identity and his loss of hope.” MenFeelingsSpiritCultureLostLossResultsEmotionBrainModernIdentityDegreesHighestTrainingAspectWestForgottenEducationalSensesContemporaryReasoningAestheticInwardAlienationTruestRestlessnessEducational SystemModern ManHis Loss Author:Kallistos Ware
“There is, between the sexes, a law of incessant reciprocal action, of which God avails himself in the constitution of the family, when He permits brothers and sisters to nestle about the same hearthstone. Its ministration is essential to the best educational results. Our own educational institutions should rest upon this divine basis.” ShouldActionLawSexResultsEducationDivineBrotherEssentialsBasesConstitutionInstitutionsEducationalPermitBrothers And SistersIncessantReciprocalBest EducationEducational Institutions Author:Caroline Wells Healey Dall
“A demanding performance challenge tends to create a Team. In any situation requiring a combination of multiple skills, experiences and judgments, a team inevitably gets better results than a collection of individuals. Teams provide the kind of responsiveness, speed, on-line customization and quality that is beyond the reach of individual performance.” KindIndividualChallengesLinesResultsQualitySituationTeamSkillsJudgmentPerformancesEducationalSpeedCombinationGet BetterCollectionsTeamworkMultipleResponsivenessIndividual Performance Author:John Katzenbach
“Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.” ShowsOpportunityResultsHalfStudyStudentsCollegeLowsResourcesEducationalIncomeQualifiedFundingOne HalfLow Income Author:Bobby Scott