“Our school system has been constructed by conservatives who were thinking much more in terms of fitting our rising generations into molds of traditional learning than in terms of training inventive and critical minds. From the point of view of society’s present needs, it is apparent that those old molds are cracking….”
Jean Piaget, Science of Education and the Psychology of the Child (1970)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
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Tagged cognition/learning/understanding, philosophy/religion
“Most people would die rather than think; in fact, they do so.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
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“To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
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Tagged philosophy/religion
“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.”
Helen Keller (1880-1968)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
“Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.”
Oprah Winfrey (1954-)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
“I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
“Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.”
Bernard Baruch Baruch: My Own Story (1996)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
Posted in Essays/Readings, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
“Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
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Tagged cognition/learning/understanding, philosophy/religion
“Today our knowledge of the past is increasing at an unprecedented rate, and this at both ends of its ever- lengthening vista. The archaeologists are making history by exhuming buried and forgotten civilizations as fast as the politicians are making it by taking new action for contemporary historians to study.”
Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975) As quoted in The Teacher and the Taught (1963)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
“Idealism is the noble toga that that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
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