“Once you’ve decided that something’s absolutely true, you’ve closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn’t go anywhere. Question everything. That’s what education’s all about.”
*David Eddings
education
The Robot Life – Human Style
We are raising today’s children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests.
**Darell Hammond
Brainless Reading makes a Brainless People
“Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”
~ George Macaulay Trevelyan
The Right Lessons
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. **Alexander the Great
The Important Lessons
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
**Norman Cousins
Best Teachers
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
**Albert Einstein
My feelings precisely
“I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.”
**Paul Nurse
In honor of a big test tomorrow, wish me luck!
Yet Still We don’t Learn
“War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.”
**Ambrose Bierce
One Ear In The Past 