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Education Quotes... J
“It
is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot
irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is
known, but to question it.”
Jacob Bronowski
“The
test and the use of man’s education is that he finds pleasure in the
exercise of his mind.”
Jacques Barzun
“Teaching
is not a lost art, but regard for it is a lost tradition.”
Jacques Barzun
“Next
in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without
which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.”
James A. Garfield
“A
child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot
afford to be fooled.”
James Baldwin
“One
may receive the information but miss the teaching.
Jean Toomer
“I
believe that the school is primarily a social institution.
Education being a social process, the school is simply that
form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated
that will be most effective in bringing the child to share in the
inherited resources of the race, and to use his own powers for social
ends.”
John Dewey
“The
essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to
assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become
different - to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind, and
spirit he or she possesses.”
John Fischer
“The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and
implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.”
John Jay Chapman
“The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and
laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed
more faith than in half the creeds.”
John Lancaster Spalding
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