Past quotes of the day
For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong. Henry Louis Mencken
Traveler, there is no path. Paths are made by walking.
Antonio Machado
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Immanuel Kant
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. Albert Einstein
To paraphrase a famous quotation, all that is necessary for the triumph of damaging educational policies is that good educators keep silent. Alfie Kohn
We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up the questions. Peter Ustinov
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. Woody Allen
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. W. H. Auden
When I was an inspector of schools I visited one classroom and looked at a boys book. He'd written, 'Yesterday, Yesterday, Yesterday, Sorrow, Sorrow, Sorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Love, Love, Love.' I said, 'That's a lovely poem.' He said, 'Those are my spelling corrections.' Gervase Phinn
Real thinking never starts until the learner fails. Roger Schank
If what is wanted is a reexamination of schooling in terms of purpose, structure and process, then testing programmes are the wrong vehicle (...) Caroline V. Gipps
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. Albert Einstein
Act always so as to increase the number of choices. Heinz von Foerster
Another way of avoiding teaching is by relying exclusively on a textbook, workbooks, and other commercially packaged learning materials. Teaching is reduced to administering a set curriculum without giving any thought to the substance of what the students area learning or to their particular needs. H. Kohl
The right to ignore anything that doesn't make sense is a crucial element of any child's learning - and the first right children are likely to lose when they get to the controlled learning environment of school. F. Smith
Learning is the human activity which least needs manipulation by others. Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful activity. -
Ivan IllichToo often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
- Roger LewinI have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain
To all the children in this world I wish at least one caring elder, enough food, a meaningful education, the intelligence to know which role model to follow, and a safe place to stay in this world of adult madness and perversion of power.
