April 2012
19 posts
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Education Quote of the Day
“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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Education Quote of the Day
“Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.” ― Heath L. Buckmaster, Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale
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Education Quote of the Day
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” ― C.S. Lewis
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Education Quote of the Day
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ― Nelson Mandela
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Education Quote of the Day
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
~Robert Maynard Hutchins
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Education Quote of the Day
It’ll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers.
~Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, Ronald D. Fuchs, ed.
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Education Quote of the Day
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Education Quote of the Day
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
~Bill Beattie
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Education Quote of the Day
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
Plato
March 2012
14 posts
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Education Quote of the Day
Education cost money, but then so does ignorance. Claus Moser
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Education Quote of the Day
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
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Education Quote of the Day
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.
David M. Burns
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Review: CUE 2012 (Palm Springs)
A week has passed since I attended this year’s CUE Conference in Palm Springs. I’d like to provide a short review of the conference as whole (individual sessions will follow), but any reading of this review should be tempered with the understanding that this was my first CUE experience.
Keynotes
Without presenting any of my own pedagogy or biases, let me just say that the Keynotes...
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Education Quote of the Day
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
Clay P. Bedford
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Will: Test Scores = Learning →
willrichardson:
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was on the Cornel West NPR radio show recently, and I just wanted to point to one snip that I think clearly shows that problem we’re having when it comes to how we define learning. Here’s Duncan:
Secondly, on the test scores, it’s a really, really important…
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Ed Quote of the Day
The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.John Dewey
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Ed Quote of the Day
No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.G. K. Chesterton
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I’m sure the reason such young nitwits are produced in our schools is because they have no contact with anything of any use in everyday life.Petronius
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Ed Quote of the Day
It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry…. I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not…Albert Einstein
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Ed Quote of the Day
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.Bertrand Russell
