Education Quotes - Page 67

Public education is not broken. It is not failing or declining. The diagnosis is wrong, and the solutions of the corporate reformers are wrong. Our urban schools are in trouble because of concentrated poverty and racial segregation. But public education is not ‘broken.’ Public education is in a crisis only so far as society is and only so far as this new narrative of crisis has destabilized it.

As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a scrap of paper with a nail to account for the oranges she had sold as she could not read or write. I took a photo of her and vowed I would do everything in my power to help educate girls just like her. This was the war I was going to fight.

Malala Yousafzai

Mr Abrahams was a preparatory schoolmaster of the old-fashioned sort. He cared neither for work nor games, but fed his boys well and saw that they did not misbehave. The rest he left to the parents, and did not speculate how much the parents were leaving to him. Amid mutual compliments the boys passed out into a public school, healthy but backward, to receive upon undefended flesh the first blows of the world.

The ultimate purpose of education is to learn how to find and see the beauty of creation so that you may feel the joy of life.

Debasish Mridha

As human beings, are we meant to develop as individuals serving only our own needs or also serving the needs of others? Do we aspire to develop as critically thinking, creative,innovative, humane people, or do we just want to think of ourselves as members of a specific nation and culture? Freedom allows choice and liberal education advocates for a specific choice: that the purpose of freedom is to enable creative, critically thinking,caring individuals to build healthy societies that serve universal (not just parochial) ends.

Gregory S. Prince

Not one thought entered my head that did not seem disloyal. I was ashamed, seeing their pride close up, as if for the first time, at how little I had accomplished, how much I had failed to do at St. Paul's. Somewhere in the last two years I had forgotten my mission. What had I done, I kept thinking, that was worthy of their faith? How had I helped my race? How had I prepared myself for a meaningful future? ... They were right: only a handful of us got this break. I wanted to shout at them that I had squandered it. Now that it's all over, hey, I'm not your girl! I couldn't do it.

PhD is possible at any age!

Lailah Gifty Akita

I had not expected the gentle, tentative surge of gratitude I began to feel...for St. Paul's School, the spring, and the early morning. I needed the morning light and the warbling birds. I needed to find a way to live in this place for a moment and get the good of it. I had tried to hold myself apart, and the aloneness proved more terrible than what I had tried to escape.

As the world fights those who use violence to advance their agenda, engagement, not neutrality,is needed in our educational systems.

Gregory S. Prince

The children are intrigued by these invitation, and it's only a matter of minutes before they find themselves engaged in a new world of possibilities.

Rachelle Doorley

Engagement provides opportunities to demonstrate how confrontation can be done both effectively and civilly

Gregory S. Prince

They [students] had two common, strongly held expectations: the college should exhibit the behavior it expected from students and hold true to its espoused values.

Gregory S. Prince

Constructively challenging authority requires the basic habits of mind a liberal education seeks to instill: the ability to frame the essential questions; to think critically, analytically, and ethically about the problems those questions identify; and to respond effectively, creatively, and wisely to the implications of the analysis. It requires not only an ability to appreciate the complexity of a problem but also to identify its essence in order to achieve effective, just, and fair conclusions.

Gregory S. Prince

Preparing citizens to act thoughtfully to create a more just, open, and creative society gives form, substance and meaning to often abstract concepts of freedom and democracy.

Gregory S. Prince

Narrative understanding is a large part of the ability to connect with, understand, and have compassion for all of us engaged in learning more about being human.

The passion for self improvement is the love for reading, learning and writing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The love to know is the passion for reading.

Lailah Gifty Akita

My desire is to embrace, to explore, to dance, to hug, to inspire, to know, to learn, to love, to read, to search, to seek, to share, to write……!

Lailah Gifty Akita

I have wander in many minds through the pages of books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It feels great to read but greater to write.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It is great to read. You will discover wisdom.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When we first arrived at the school we received an extended introduction detailing what a wonderful place it was and how lucky we were to be there. But no one explained exactly why we were to be there. Yes, we understood the general objective was to accumulate knowledge, although learning Shakespeare and algebra did not strike us as particularly helpful to our future lives. I've yet to meet a single person who found a use for algebra in later life. The excuse proffered was that it developed intelligence. It struck me as extremely unintelligent not to give us the opportunity to study subjects that would be of practical use as well as develop our intelligence. I learned Boyle's law and Ohm's law parrot fashion without having a clue as to their meaning, yet left the school five years later incapable of changing a fuse or wiring a three-pin plug. Understandably, we formed the general impression that we were there for the same reason we were sent to Sunday school – to keep us out of mischief until we were old enough to work.

Just as you learn from a teacher, so you can observe and learn from the educator we call nature.

Debasish Mridha

True education gives a child wings to fly in his imaginative blue sky.

Debasish Mridha

The purpose of education is to open the windows of the mind.

Debasish Mridha

True education should enhance the power of the imagination.

Debasish Mridha

You can go as far as God takes you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I do not know everything. I ought to keep learning.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I am young to learn.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Wisdom is obtained by the revere of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It takes many years to lay the solid foundation for final success.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The will to rise when you fall is fortitude to success.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Its not your fault for not being there.Its my fault for thinking you would be

Abhysheq Shukla

At the core of the problem is an obsolete factory model of schooling that sorts, tracks, tests, and rejects or certifies working-class children as if they were products on an assembly line. The purpose of education, I said, cannot be only to increase the earning power of the individual or to supply workers for the ever-changing slots of the corporate machine. Children need to be given a sense of the 'unique capacity of human beings to shape and create reality in accordance with conscious purposes and plans.

Grace Lee Boggs

The path of genius is free, and its own

William Hazlitt

Read enough books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I build my world with the pages of a book.

Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no substitute for education.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The pursuit of PhD is enduring daring adventure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-study is the key to success.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You must work hard to get what you want.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I read and write.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you believe you can, you can achieve your dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Stay focus. Stay focus. Stay focus on the goal.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I am still young to keep learning.

Lailah Gifty Akita

What will my world be without books?

Lailah Gifty Akita

Tenderhearted people are silent sufferers they just learn the art to fly with broken wings.

Abhysheq Shukla

There's a story behind every "I don't believe in love""Period

Abhysheq Shukla

I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.

J.R. Rim

Why study things of no use? To learn you don't need it and concentrate your efforts on what is important to you.

J.R. Rim

Education is the true gift of love that can eradicate the poverty of a nation.

Debasish Mridha

It is often difficult to educate a child about the beauty of an open mind when he is a prisoner of societal conformity.

Debasish Mridha

Is there any smooth path to success? No. You must learn to travel on many rugged roads to find the straight path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Education is a change of mind, an acceptance, and an assimilation.

Debasish Mridha

Education is a never ending light that enlightens our path of life.

Debasish Mridha

The student must be humbled to be trained by the teacher.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Curiosity is good, but creativity is greater.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It is better to be creative than curious.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Concentrate and complete the journey.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The mind is the greatest sacred paradise.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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