Quotes about educational-system

Tanya R. Liverman - Memoirs of an Educarer: An Inspiration for Education

Children are our future. We teach them today what will they do tomorrow?

H.L. Mencken - A Mencken Chrestomathy

In brief, the teaching process, as commonly observed, has nothing to do with the investigation and establishment of facts, assuming that actual facts may ever be determined. Its sole purpose is to cram the pupils, as rapidly and as painlessly as possible, with the largest conceivable outfit of current axioms, in all departments of human thought—to make the pupil a good citizen, which is to say, a citizen differing as little as possible, in positive knowledge and habits of mind, from all other ci

David Foster Wallace - about Living a Compassionate Life

The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on in front of me.

Sunday Adelaja -

The value system of a country comes from the educational system.

Paulo Freire - Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

Talees Rizvi -

Education has become a ritual... Hence done by all parents... I don't see people with degrees acquired in 16-18 years know their subjects... So what's the point to feed schools with money... Our system makes every thing commercial and ritualistic... it's about security of work as it used to be in 50s to 80s... when the graduates were less... but now degree is not a promise for success... Education should create better performing humans and not Humans performing better in academics.

Amit Abraham -

Fashion sells education is sold.

Josh Kilmer-Purcell - I Am Not Myself These Days

There's a strange lack of knowledge about the role of drag queens in our culture. I attribute this to the appalling state of our country's educational system. Others might blame an utter lack of interest. Who am I to judge?

Henry David Thoreau - Walden

It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women.

Raquel Cepeda - Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.

Martha Char Love - Int

What better way could we teach our children the importance of learning to push forward despite failure than to openly embrace in the education system Trial and Learn as our truly only human learning process. In doing so, we eliminate the stigma of failure and view it as an important part of the process of learning.

Gore Vidal - At Home: Essays 1982-1988

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.

John Dewey -

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

Thomas L. Friedman -

In my world, you don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and be against common-sense gun control — like banning public access to the kind of semiautomatic assault rifle, designed for warfare, that was used recently in a Colorado theater. You don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and want to shut down the Environmental Protection Agency, which ensures clean air and clean water, prevents childhood asthma, preserves biodiversity and combats climate change that could disrupt every life on the planet.

Michael Ende - Momo

All the games were selected for them by supervisors and had to have some useful, educational purpose. The children learned these new games but unlearned something else in the process: they forgot to be happy, how to take pleasure in little things and last, but not least, how to dream

Rumman Bin Sadiq -

I have seen many educated persons splitting garbage over roads and many uneducated persons cleaning it.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

You have to discovery many things by yourself.

Amit Ray - Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

The biggest problem of the world is not lack of education but brainwashing of innocent children by the religion institutes in the name of education. Brainwashing of innocent children no less a violence.

Debasish Mridha -

Our education system often teaches us how to conform more than how to wonder and venture.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

Should books not have been there, hearsay would have been the best reading material!

K.A. Hill - The Winners' Guide

Take one child, limitless dreams, unlimited potential, pure innocence and a sponge-like brain. Force them by law to spend at least ten years of their precious youth being force-fed the most useless information. Constantly reminding them that they’re only as good as their grades in a system that teaches useless mind-numbing subjects and claims to confirm our intellect with repetition and random memory tests. I didn’t give a flying fuck about the square route of the number nine or the speed of sou

Debasish Mridha -

Most often a country is poor when its educational system is poor and individuals do not strive to become educated.

Debasish Mridha -

We cannot improve ourselves or our country without improving our educational system and educating ourselves.

Amit Ray - Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.

H. Beam Piper - Little Fuzzy

It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra.

Noam Chomsky -

Most schooling is training for stupidity and conformity, and that's institutional, but occasionally you get a spark, somebody'll challenge your mind, make you think and so on, and that has a tremendous effect you just reach all sorts of people. Of course if you do it you may very have problems, you have to tread the narrow line. There are plenty of people who don't want students to think, they're afraid of the crisis of democracy. If people start thinking you get all these problems that I quoted

Abhijit Naskar - God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

My expectations from the university were perhaps too idealistic. I had dreams of learning things about innovation and discovery in the field of technology, but all of it hit the ground hard, when I faced with the pathetic reality of the so-called higher education system. To my surprise, I found myself stuck behind the walls of meaningless facts, figures and rankings. It occurred to me that, it was not actually a place for education, rather it was a place where you go to get your head filled with

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

Education aims at solving problems, but some educators are problems to be solved

Alex Kerr -

Why has pachinko swept Japan? It can hardly be the excitement of gambling, since the risks and rewards are so small. During the hours spent in front of a pachinko machine, there is an almost total lack of stimulation other than the occasional rush of ball bearings. There is no thought, no movement; you have no control over the flow of balls, apart from holding a little lever which shoots them up to the top of the machine; you sit there enveloped in a cloud of heavy cigarette smoke, semi-dazed by

Henry Blake Fuller - Bertram Cope's Year

Traps!" he said. "Never in the world! Don't think it! Why, Gower is just a necessary olf bore. Nobody's supposed to know much about him--except instructors and their hapless students.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

Education is the spine of every nation! The better the education, the better the nation! The mediocre the education, the mediocre the nation! A good nation is good because of how education shapes the perspective and understanding of the populace to positively look beyond what they look and think beyond the ordinary thoughts for good and great exploits! A nation that does not know where it is heading towards must first ask the machine that produces the populace who drive the nation: education! Un

Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi -

In the educational domain, searching for depth, value, benefit and mark are matters that need to be the absolute priorities. There is no other option that explains neglecting them and caring about other matters that are only sparkling and have a bright that would soon fade, since they have no basis to support them, nor roots to protect them, nor shadow laying on earth for them.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

if education doesn't solve a problem, then it is a problem; If the educated do not solve problems, then they are the problems.

Tanya R. Liverman - Memoirs of an Educarer: An Inspiration for Education

A teacher will be frustrated if she is only motivated to teach what she has learned. Yet, if she is motivated because of the students, then she will learn from them how to teach.

Christopher Langan -

Owing to the shape of a bell curve, the education system is geared to the mean. Unfortunately, that kind of education is virtually calculated to bore and alienate gifted minds. But instead of making exceptions where it would do the most good, the educational bureaucracy often prefers not to be bothered.In my case, for example, much of the schooling to which I was subjected was probably worse than nothing. It consisted not of real education, but of repetition and oppressive socialization (entirel

Abhijit Naskar -

There is a system alright, but the actual element of education has long gone.

Christopher Langan -

There is nothing to be gained by pretending that academic involvement is necessary, or even always desirable, in the quest for truth and knowledge.

Martin Guevara Urbina - Latino Access to Higher Education: Ethnic Realitites and New Directions for the Twenty-first Century

Invariably, knowledge dictates life, liberty, and death, but those who have historically occupied the seats of power not only dictate what is defined as knowledge but also dictate what’s included, what’s excluded, and how it is filtered to society vis-à-vis America’s major institutions . . . particularly the educational system; ultimately, shaping the very essence of life.

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