Educational Philosophy Quotes

education without inspiration is only recipe for desperation

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

~ Henry David Thoreau

It is a tragedy, at rate at which EBOLA VIRUS is spreading in West Africa. It is a fatal disease in the history of the world. Intensive education (formal and informal approaches) of the citizens of African can help prevent the spread. International cooperation is urgently needed to combat the EBOLA virus.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Education is the foundation of all human endeavors. It is the most noble of all the elements of human consciousness.

~ Abhijit Naskar

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

~ Neil Postman

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

~ Frank Mccourt

Have no fear, most of the Indigo children that are struggling are the children that have had a very difficult time trying to live up to societies Indigo myth that developed around them

~ Tasha Heart

America is polarized and divided beyond repair unless we renew our conviction that the health of our nation comes first. That we concentrate on repairing not only our stressed infrastructure, but also our people. Free or reasonably priced education beyond secondary school is more than a political issue; it is the primary solution to our nation’s long term problems.” Captain Hank Bracker

~ Hank Bracker

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

~ Helen Keller

No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There may be countless trails and bridges and demigods who would gladly carry you across; but only at the price of pawning and forgoing yourself. There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Therein lies the key, I think, to Einstein's brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as a theorist, his success came not from the brute strength of his mental processing power but from his imagination and creativity.

~ Walter Isaacson

It's not that we are poor because we are uneducated, unemployed nor unqualified, we just have have a buying mentality instead of a selling mentality

~ Goitsemang Mvula

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul

~ — Froebel

Life is a book. Read it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Lecturing is an art. A good lecturer is an artist who understands the art.

~ Qizhi Chen

Wisdom is the inner form of man, and rarely are adjusted out

~ Haruni Machumu

Quality is a flying goal, always fight to achieve

~ Haruni Machumu

How decisive for the Christian educator, or for any educator of good will, is the revelation that man is made in the image and likeness of the three-Personed God? That is like asking what difference it will make to us if we keep in mind that a human being is made not for the processing of data, but for wisdom; not for the utilitarian satisfaction of appetite, but for love; not for the domination of nature, but for participation in it; not for the autonomy of an isolated self, but for communion.

~ Anthony M. Esolen

You must dare the impossible.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Think of the things killing us as a nation: narcotic drugs, brainless competition, dishonesty, greed, recreational sex, the pornography of violence, gambling, alcohol, and the worst pornography of all -- lives devoted to buying things, accumulation as a philosophy -- all of these are addictions of dependent personalities. That is what our brand of schooling must inevitably produce.

~ John Taylor Gatto

But for some reason the Department believed all students should learn the exact same way and at the exact same time, demonstrating that no one in Instruction knew the first thing about children.

~ Trish Mercer

The simplest description is that Unschooling means a way of bringing up children using free play and child-directed activity to develop the child's own individual talents and creativity by supportively following up the child's own interests – without coercion, compulsion, manipulation, regimentation, constant testing and grading and rank-ordering, or top-down authoritarianism.

~ Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

Teachers achievements does not requires their positions. Because real teacher must not focus in certificates but instead the experiences he encounter to the learners,that he touches the future he teach.

~ Adoniemar

One of the best things that I wanted to become a teacher is that, I don't want to be forgotten.

~ Adoniemar

Pickpocket is a sink-or-swim profession, not something that can be taught in the comfort of your living room.

~ Martyn V. Halm

A good pickpocket isn’t afraid of intimacy.

~ Martyn V. Halm

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of a true education.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

An educated person would know that holding a degree will not make you entitled to a better job nor a better salary than someone who has no degree.

~ J.b.

we are all born educated, but we need education to be educated

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Children learn from anything and everything they see. They learn wherever they are, not just in special learning places.

~ John Holt

education without inspiration is only a recipe for desperation

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

So many books to read, will I ever finish reading?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Children are not only extremely good at learning, they are much better at it than we are.

~ John Holt

The myth that if you don't start early, you might as well not start, tends to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. The music-making world that young people confront reminds me a lot of the world of school sports. After a lot of weeding out, in the end you've got a varsity with a few performers and an awful lot of people on the sidelines thinking, Gee, it's too bad I wasn't good enough. We need to be careful about that. There seems to be an unspoken idea, in instruction of the young, that the people who start the fastest will go the farthest. But that's not only an unproven theory; it's not even a tested theory. The assumption that the steeper the learning curve, the higher it will go, is also unfounded. If we did things a little differently, we might find out that people whose learning curves were much slower might later on go up just as high or higher.

~ John Holt

The love for books is a paradise.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

By educating the young, we are building a liberating potential force indirectly.

~ Auliq Ice

Based on our badly borrowed misunderstanding of the words ‘secular’ and ‘spiritual’ we seemto have become blinded by the dominant intellectual ideology of our times, according to which schools as secular organizations are supposed to not have anything to do with matters of the spirit. Education has, therefore, become concerned only with matters of material life (eventually leading to commodification)... This dichotomy between 'education for social success' and education for spirit' must go if we want to make Indian Education more relevant for the future of India. Education needs to become more integral, more complete through a meaningful synthesis of the two.

~ Beloo Mehra

Answer all the questions. Question all the answers.

~ Laurie Gray

We read to learn.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Public education does not serve a public. It creates a public. And in creating the right kind of public, the schools contribute toward strengthening the spiritual basis of the American Creed. That is how Jefferson understood it, how Horace Mann understood it, how John Dewey understood it, and in fact, there is no other way to understand it. The question is not, Does or doesn't public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of public does it create? A conglomerate of self-indulgent consumers? Angry, soulless, directionless masses? Indifferent, confused citizens? Or a public imbued with confidence, a sense of purpose, a respect for learning, and tolerance? The answer to this question has nothing whatever to do with computers, with testing, with teacher accountability, with class size, and with the other details of managing schools. The right answer depends on two things, and two things alone: the existence of shared narratives and the capacity of such narratives to provide an inspired reason for schooling.

~ Neil Postman