“ The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers priorities for educational policy: to provide students with the cognitive tools that… Steven Pinker
“ As we explore new ways of thinking, we need to be willing to investigate, experiment, take some risks with our attention, and stretch. Sharon Salzberg
“ Strait-jacket and chain-gang procedures had to be done away with if there was to a chance for growth of individuals in the intellectual springs of freedom without which there is no assurance of genuin… John Dewey
“ A single course of studies for all progressive schools is out of the question it would mean abandoning the fundamental principle of connection with life-experiences. John Dewey
“ The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the new deals with them more as the poultry-keeper deals with young birds — making them thus or thus for… C.S. Lewis
“ The best insurance that a girl can be given is a proper education and a steady career. That way she can assure a bright future for her family herself, instead of depending on her future groom to give… Hanadi Falki
“ ...I always took the rearmost seat in the classroom - it gave me a good view of things. And I must confess, the location taught me more about human nature and justice than could be learned from the pr… Rohinton Mistry
“ Left to our own devices, we are apt to backslide to our instinctive conceptual ways. This underscores the place of education in a scientifically literate democracy, and even suggests a statement of pu… Steven Pinker
“ Most of the world’s problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have many intelligent people who lack good characters. Israelmore Ayivor
“ Those who looked with revulsion at the oppressive might of her arms, were obliged to marvel at the egalitarian nature of her social programmes. A.H. Septimius
“ If someone rationally rejects your thought process , he or she is teaching you to think more intellectually in order to fulfill more rigorous tasks which your instructors or employers are assigning yo… Saaif Alam
“ We need both Socrates and Aristotle in the search for knowledge, but in education today there is too much Aristotle and too little Socrates. Gregory J.E. Rawlins
“ If someone rationally rejects your thought process , he or she is teaching you to think more intellectually in order to fulfill more rigorous tasks your instructors or employers are assigning you to c… Saaif Alam
“ Why?' says the boy.'Why? Because staying alive is more important than anything else.''Why is staying alive more important than anything?'He is about to answer, about to produce the correct, patient, e… J.M. Coetzee
“ The belief that young people are incapable of making reasonable decisions is a cornerstone of our system of compulsory, closely monitored education. Peter O. Gray
“ Watch movies. Read screenplays. Let them be your guide. […] Yes, McKee has been able to break down how the popular screenplay has worked. He has identified key qualities that many commercially success… Brian Koppelman
“ What shapes the best in us dies when the best education dies! The best in us shall always be undermined when they that are responsible for shaping the best in us are always undermined!I stand for a di… Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“ In the Middle Ages, as in antiquity, they read usually, not as today, principally with the eyes, but with the lips, pronouncing what they saw, and with the ears, listening to the words pronounced. hea… Jean Leclercq
“ Since in early youth it cannot be known what ends are likely to occur to us in the course of life, parents seek to have their children taught a great many things, and provide for their skill in the us… Immanuel Kant
