“ I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge to him. He had been adapted to the verses and had… Charles Dickens
“ He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed him in exactly the same manner as it had addressed hundreds of other boys, all varying in character a… Charles Dickens
“ Education occurs when students set out to educate themselves… the student will only learn, can only learn, what he chooses to learn…(An) advantage of not pushing is an innate sense (his) education is… Oliver DeMille
“ Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performing the act but does not do so, then it is reasonabl… Urie Bronfenbrenner
“ His education had been neither scientific nor classical—merely “Modern.” The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him by: and he had neither peasant shrewdness nor ari… C.S. Lewis
“ I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by… Jasper Fforde
“ As Mary delivered what was to be her last lecture about the Galapagos Islands, she would be stopped mid-sentence for five seconds by a doubt which, if expressed in words, might have come out something… Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“ I’d compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to the equipment (books, labs, our expertise) and after… Randy Pausch
“ What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less. Marva Collins
“ We learn best when we care about what we are doing, when we have choices. We learn best when the work has meaning to us, when it matters. We learn best when we are using our hands and our minds.We lea… Dennis Littky
“ I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries. R. Buckminster Fuller
“ There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds… Jiddu Krishnamurti
“ For many years I have been asking myself why intelligent children act unintelligently at school. The simple answer is, "Because they're scared." I used to suspect that children's defeatism had somethi… John Holt
“ Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education. Jiddu Krishnamurti
