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Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education, and children should be taught music before anything else. Plato
Art education is not a luxury, it is a spiritual necessity. Alexandra York, American Renaissance for the Twenty-First Century
Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russell
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan (1876-1962)
The myth is that if you go to the best rated college possible it increases the likelihood of a more successful career and/or a better life. But that assumption is simply not true. Based on the data I've seen, there is no significant relationship between the college one attends and the career/life success one achieves. Dr. Kalman Heller
Children read to learn--even when they are
reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal
packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their
vocabulary, making discoveries: it is all new to them.
Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books--they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past. Esther Meynell
America's future will
be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely
what it is taught, hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live
before it.
Race and class disparities in public education historically have been linked to the oppression of the working poor and the economic interests of industrial and corporate capital. Enora R Brown
Recent literature has shown that the school is less a citizen-building institution than a site for corporate exploitation, training individuals to think of themselves as consumers in a marketplace who need to compete against on another and fear the unknown. Julie Webber
During the twentieth century, education and schooling in the United States have functioned to increase efficiency of work and labor, select and channel individuals within differential education and training programs according to national manpower needs, and sort them into desired slots in the labor force. Testing and measurements of intelligence, skills, and abilities have been the instruments of this sorting and ranking... Sandra Jackson |
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