“A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.” KnowsDoeJobsPurposeEducationLearningTeacherStudentsIgnoranceTerrorProfessionIgnorantCuresProfessionalismBest TeacherEffective TeacherTrue Teacher Author:Miriam Defensor Santiago
“An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.” KnowsWorldMeanPersonsTeacherIgnoranceWalkingEnlightenmentEnlightenedKnow It AllKnowledge And Ignorance Author:Frederick Lenz
“Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.” FirstsChildrenInterestTeacherIgnoranceScientistDefense Author:Peter Agre
“In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing... The teacher presents himself to his students as their necessary opposite; by considering their ignorance absolute, he justifies his own existence.” KnowsExistenceTeacherStudentsIgnoranceConceptsOppositesAbsolutesJustifyConsideringSelf KnowledgeBankingKnowledgeable Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.” FirstsMayChildrenAgeEnemyTeacherTeachingDangerousIgnoranceCivilizationCreatingOur ChildrenStupidityDestroyedNonsenseArtificial IntelligenceArtificial Book:Controversial Essays Source: Controversial Essays
“So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants of the public--let them be teachers of religion, professors of colleges, authors of books, or editors of journals or periodical publications, dependent upon their literary incomes for their daily bread, so long shall we hear but half the truth; and well if we hear so much. Our teachers, political, scientific, moral, or religious; our writers, grave or gay, are compelled to administer to our prejudices and to perpetuate our ignorance.” IfsMenWellsLongBookHandsPoliticalLeftReligiousHalfMoralTeacherIgnoranceCollegeGayPrejudiceGravesIncomeBreadServantDependentEditorsProfessorsInstructionJournalCompelledPublicationDaily Bread Author:Frances Wright
“If I had a child who wanted to be a teacher, I would bid him Godspeed as if he were going to war. For indeed the war against prejudice, greed, and ignorance is eternal, and those who dedicate themselves to it give their lives no less because they may live to see some fraction of the battle won.” IfsGivingMayChildrenWarWantedTeacherIgnoranceBattleEternalPrejudiceGreedFractionsGoing To War Author:James Hilton