Looking for quotations

[proud2BlibKansan]

Someone gave me a white board for messages. I hung it on my classroom door. I would like to put up quotes with an educational theme. Any suggestions?

Testing is coming up in 3 weeks. A great quote regarding that would be most appreciated.

Thank you.

My first one is: "I never let my schooling interfere with my education" - Mark Twain

[femmedem]

1. From the Congressional Record, January 26, 1917

"It seems to me one of the most dangerous things that can go on in a republic is to have an institution of this power apparently trying to shape and mold the thought of the young people of this country."-- Senator Kenyon from Iowa

"They are moving with military precision all along the line to get control of the education of the children of the land."--Senator Chamberlain of Oregon

Other quotes from other times:

“Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening… The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they’re not tempted to think about any other role." - U.S. Commissioner of Education William Torrey Harris, 1889

"In our dream...people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present educational conventions fade from our minds, and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, educators, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have ample supply. The task we set before ourselves is very simple...we will organize children...and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way." - John D. Rockefeller’s General Education Board, Occasional Letter Number One (1906)

And from the book that got me thinking about all this, Walking on Water: Reading, Writing and Revolution

"As is true for most people I know, I've always loved learning. As is also true for most people I know, I always hated school. Why is that?"--Derrick Jensen

Edited to add this probably isn't what you had in mind, except maybe the last one. But I thought you'd be interested.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Those are great

Exactly what I had in mind!!

Thank you :)

[femmedem]

2. uh-oh. more.

"..standardized testing would cause the lower classes to confront their biological inferiority, sort of like wearing a dunce cap. In time that would discourage reproduction of the ants on the anthill."-- H. H. Cadard, chairman for the Psychology Department at Princeton

http://4brevard.com/choice/Public_Education.htm

Edit to add I can't find more info on Cadard, so I don't know when that's from. But especially when I juxtapose it with NCLB, it's frightening.

[femmedem]

3. But there are some that you can actually use here

http://members.aol.com/svennord/ed/quotes.htm

like this nice one:

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
Maria Montessori

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. I am printing that one out

:)

[cyberswede]

6. lots of them here

I use brainyquote.com whenever I need something pithy.

here's their education section:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_education.html

Sample:

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
-Robert Frost

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
-Emma Goldman

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. That's a great link; thanks!

:)

[Reader Rabbit]

7. This is by either Harry Truman or John Wooden

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."

Heh.

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. John Wooden is one of my heroes

What a great teacher than man is.

[Reader Rabbit]

8. Here are a few more.

"Read education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness that links us with all humanity."—Nancy Astor

"When politicians want to reduce what government does for children, they show us statistics, not children."—Keith Olbermann

"Every day I come here to teach is like burning an offering, only better. Because it makes, instead of destroys."—Lois McMaster Bujold

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. Those are great

Thanks!!

[kath]

12. "Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire" - W.B. Yeats

One of my favorites, and why we unschooled at home for many years (schools - with only a VERY few exceptions, such as schools based on the Sudbury Valley School model - are getting more, and more, and more into the "filling buckets" mode all the time).

This, and many others at: The Really Big List of Education Quotes & Links http://drwilliampmartin.tripod.com/bigedlist.htm (also links to lots of other lists of education quotes)

another goodie I found at that site:
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

[Smarmie Doofus]

13. Personal fave: The Six Phases of a Project::

The Six Phases of a Project

1. Enthusiasm

2. Disillusionment

3. Panic

4. Search for the Guilty

5. Punishment of the Innocent

6. Praise and Honors for the Non-Participants


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I've had this hanging in or around my classroom for fifteen years.

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. Very good!

[Sabriel]

14. "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

One of my favorites from Ralph Waldo Emerson.


Or you could hit them with "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." (Mark Twain)

[Sancho]

16. Here's a good Democratic one...

“You may not understand completely in what ways, but it is true when I say to you that you have taught me and you've tested me and you've lifted me up, and you made me stronger”

Senator John Kerry quotes (American Senator, b.1943)

[madeline_con]

17. Try this ...

http://www.heartquotes.net/Education.html