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But as I mastered the material, homework ceased to be necessary. A no homework policy is a challenge...

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Alfie KohnThe Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing

Meditation, education and beauty are the three transforming powers that can change individual and th...

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

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The biggest problem of the world is not lack of education but brainwashing of innocent children by t...

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Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Education is not to be viewed as something like filling a vessel with water but, rather, assisting a...

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The school systems, it seems to me have a attitude of discouragement of asking fundamental questions...

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If the ability to read carries the average man no higher than the gossip of his neighbours, if he as...

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Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which h...

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Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere...

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No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There may ...

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The day is ours, and what the day has shown.

It is not enought to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

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

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We are the witnesses of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which former...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of ly...

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It would be better to have no school at all than the schools we now have. Encouraged, instead of fri...

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Education is something which should be apart from the necessities of earning a living, not a tool th...

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Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones ...

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Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not attention

Thomas Jefferson. . . knew what schools were for--to ensure that citizens would know when and how to...

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Neil PostmanThe End of Education: Redefining the Value of School

Public education does not serve a public. It creates a public. And in creating the right kind of pub...

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Most schooling is training for stupidity and conformity, and that's institutional, but occasionally ...

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The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one ...

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Education is a natural community function and occurs inevitably, since the young grow up on the old,...

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Paul GoodmanCompulsory Mis-education/The Community of Scholars

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the pr...

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There is no matter what children should learn first, any more than what leg you should put into your...

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Left to our own devices, we are apt to backslide to our instinctive conceptual ways. This underscore...

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Steven PinkerThe Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

I think the difficulty lies in the immeasurable vanity of the human adult, particularly the pedagogi...

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Therein lies the key, I think, to Einstein's brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young stud...

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Walter IsaacsonEinstein: His Life and Universe