“I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.” ChildrenSchoolPassionBuildingAbidingTextbooksVery Deep Author:Johann Lamont
“There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from 'audio-visual aids' - flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.” YearsMadeSchoolGamesEasyEducationWonderFocusTeacherIndustryDollarsProfitEducationalSurfaceAidsBillionsCardsVisualsTapeFlashLots Of MoneyTextbooksManualsAudioCassettesAudio Visual Book:Marva Collins Way Source: Marva Collins Way
“The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap between the sheer weight of the textbooks that he carries home from school and his capacity to interpret what is in them.” ChildrenHomeRealitySchoolEducationUnited StatesTelevisionLosingCapacityWeightDrivenEnormousContactCarrieGapsBusSheerTextbooks Book:With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey Source: With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey
“Formal education in British India was remarkable for its lack of connection with its Indian environment. Like the African persuaded to cover his nakedness with a Mother Hubbard, we wore mental Mother Hubbards, and they were often a sad fit. Our textbooks had been compiled by Englishmen for English children, of whom there were none in my school and few in any school in India.” ChildrenSchoolMotherEnvironmentFitConnectionsIndiaBritishIndianRemarkableFormalImperialismEnglishmenTextbooksFormal Education Book:From fear set free Source: From fear set free