Use soft words and hard arguments.
Mary had a little lamb,
His fleece was white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went,
The Lamb was sure to go.
He followed her to school each day,
T'wasn't even in the rule.
It made the children laugh and play,
To have a Lamb at school
And then the rules all changed one day,
Illegal it became;
To bring the Lamb of God to school,
Or even speak His Name.! ;
Every day got worse and worse,
And days turned into years.
Instead of hearing children laugh,
We heard gun shots and tears.
What must we do to stop the crime,
That's in our schools today?
Let's let the Lamb come back to school
And teach our kids to pray!
...the battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their roles as the proslytizers of a new faith...The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new - the rotting corpse of Christianity...and the new faith of Humanism. -- "A Religion for a New Age", _The Humanist_, Jan./Feb. 1983
To teach is to learn.... Japanese Proverb
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams (1744-1818)
Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators. --Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888)
We have succeeded so completely in expelling particularistic religious beliefs from modern schooling and in providing a dispassionate, objective, scientific, value-free education, that our success is becoming our demise. For when put into practice, dispassionate value-freedom comes to mean that no institution is worth defending and no ideal of ultimate significance. With no conception of things sacred,we can communicate neither a social vision nor a sense of purpose to our youth. --Chanan Alexander
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.--Aristotle
The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.--Aristotle (384-322 BC)(Quoted in Jean Guitton's _A Student's Guide to Intellectual Work_ [1951]
First, religious and moral principles; secondly, gentlemanly conduct; thirdly, intellectual ability.
Thomas Arnold 1795-1842.. appointed headmaster of Rugby, 1828
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. --Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818-1885)
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. --George Burns
The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee. ~John Cotton, 1642
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. --Thomas Carruthers
People will pay more to be entertained than educated.-- Johnny Carson
Man arrives as an apprentice at all the times of his life.-- Chamfort
Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre;
But al that he myghte of his freendes hente,
On bookes and on lernynge he it spente,
And bisily gan for the soules preye
Of hem that yaf hym wherwith to scoleye.
Of studie took he moost cure and moost heede,
Noght o word spak he moore than was neede,
And that was seyd in forme and reverence,
And short and quyk and ful of hy sentence;
Sownynge in moral vertu was his speche,
And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Clerk's Portrait
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.- G. K. Chesterton
My education was interrupted only by my schooling. --Winston Churchill
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. - Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. --W. Edwards Deming
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. --Benjamin Disraeli
Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.--Benjamin Disraeli (1874)
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.-Norman Douglas
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.-Will Durant
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. --Bob Edwards
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine. ~Irwin Edman (1896-1954)
I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
Henry Fielding (1707-1754) Abraham Adams speaking of his host, Wilson, in "Joseph Andrews," bk. 3, ch. 5, 1742.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.-- Anatole France (1844-1924) In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software,1994.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence. - Robert Frost
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind, yet strangely, I am ungrateful to those teachers.- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) "Sand and Foam."
They say that the more a person learns, the more they find there is to learn. Therefore the smarter you think you are, the dumber you really are. - Chris Hamono
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.-- Sydney J. Harris
No plan of instruction ought to be encouraged in which intellectual instruction is not subordinate to the regulation of the thoughts and habits of children by the doctrines and precepts of revealed religion. -- Her Majesty's Inspectorate for Schools (1839)
I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christís reign, that a comprehensive and centralised system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, social and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen.--A A Hodge
Children are not to be allowed to grow up without care or control. They are to be instructed, disciplined, and admonished, so that they be brought to knowledge, self-control and obedience. This whole process of education is to be religious, and not only religious, but Christian. It is the nurture and admonition of the Lord, which is the appointed and the only effectual means of attaining the end of education. Where this means is neglected or any other substituted in its place, the result must be disastrous failure. The moral and religious element of our nature is just as essential and as universal as the intellectual. Religion therefore is as necessary to the mind as knowledge. And as Christianity is the only true religion, and God in Christ the only true God, the only possible means of profitable education is the nurture and admonition of the Lord. That is, the whole process of instruction and discipline must be that which he prescribes, and which he administers, so that his authority should be brought into constant and immediate contact with the mind, heart and conscience of the child. It will not do for the parent to present himself as the ultimate end, the source of knowledge and possessor of authority to determine truth and duty. This would be to give his child a mere human development. Nor will it do for him to urge and communicate every thing on the abstract ground of reason; for that would be to merge his child in nature. It is only by making God, God in Christ, the teacher and ruler, on whose authority every thing is to be believed and in obedience to whose will every thing is to be done, that the ends of education can possibly be attained. It is infinite folly in men to assume to be wiser than God, or to attempt to accomplish an end by other means than those which he has appointed.-- Charles Hodge
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing youhave to do when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.- Thomas H. Huxley
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day. -- Thomas Jefferson
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. -- Carl Gustav Jung
Whatever or abilities or application, we must submit to learn from others what perhaps would have lain hid for ever from human penetration, had not some remote inquiry brought it to view; as treasures are thrown up by the ploughman and the digger in the rude exercise of their common occupations. -- Samuel Johnson: Rambler #154
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. -- Carl Gustav Jung
Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. - John Maynard Keynes
America still doesn't understand what has happened to its colleges. A strong and implacably non-diverse campus culture has arisen around very dangerous ideas. Among them are radical cultural relativism, non-judgmentalism, and a post-modern conviction that there are no moral norms or truths worth defending -- all knowledge and morality are constructions built by the powerful. Add to this the knee-jerk antagonism to the "hegemony" of the West and a reflexive feeling of sympathy for anti-Western resentments, even those expressed in violence. This is a toxic mix, and it is now crucial for those both on and off the campus to start saying so.-- John Leo, October 1, 2001, http://www.townhall.com/columnists/johnleo/jl20011001.shtml
The basic principle of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be "undemocratic." These differences between pupils &endash; for they are obviously and nakedly individual differences &endash; must be disguised. This can be done at various levels. At universities, examinations must be framed so that nearly all the students get good marks. Entrance examinations must be framed so that all, or nearly all, citizens can go to universities, whether they have any power (or wish) to profit by higher education or not. At schools, the children who are too stupid or lazy to learn languages and mathematics and elementary science can be set to doing things that children used to do in their spare time. Let, them, for example, make mud pies and call it modeling. But all the time there must be no faintest hint that they are inferior to the children who are at work. Whatever nonsense they are engaged in must have &endash; I believe the English already use the phrase &endash; "parity of esteem." An even more drastic scheme is now possible. Children who are fit to proceed to a higher class may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma -- Beelzebub, what a useful word! &endash; by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. --C.S. Lewis, Screwtape Proposes A Toast (1959)
I believe a man is happier, and happy in a richer way, if he has "the freeborn mind." But I doubt whether he can have this without economic independence, which the new society is abolishing. For economic independence allows an education not controlled by Government; and in adult life it is the man who needs, and asks, nothing of Government who can criticise its acts and snap his fingers at its ideology. Read Montaigne; that's the voice of a man with his legs under his own table, eating the mutton and turnips raised on his own land. Who will talk like that when the State is everyone's schoolmaster and employer? -- C.S. Lewis
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them on the hearts of youth. I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution in which men and women are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must be corrupt.--Martin Luther
I do not see how anyone can contemplate present-day educational conditions without seeing that something is radically wrong. And about one thing that is wrong - indeed by far the most important thing - there can be no doubt. It is found in the widespread ignorance of the Christian religion as that religion is founded upon the Word of God.... I do not believe that there can be any truly comprehensive science that does not take account of the solid facts upon which the Christian religion is based. Hence I sympathize fully with your desire to promote an education that shall be genuinely Christian. And I pray that those who, like you, wherever they may be, cherish such a desire may not be discouraged by the opposition of the world. You represent a cause which cannot ultimately fail. -- Gresham Machen
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Horace Mann (1796-1859) "Twelfth Annual Report to the President of Antioch," 1848.
I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse in his reading of the Bible; and of turning it into a Prayer; and engage him (and them) unto a daily Course in reading the Bible in such a way. C. Mather--Diary v.2, p.251
If you think education is expensive, TRY IGNORANCE!!! --Andy McIntyre
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.-- H.L. Mencken
A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mold in which casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency over the body. ... All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects are evil." --John Stuart Mill,_On Liberty_ (1859)
Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. --John Milton (1608-1674) _The Reason of Church Government_ [1641], Book II, "Introduction"
The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him. --John Milton
Education, the great mumbo-jumbo and fraud of the age, purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility. For the most part it only serves to enlarge stupidity, inflate conceit, enhance credulity and put those subjected to it at the mercy of brain-washers with printing presses, radio and TV at their disposal. Malcolm Muggeridge, in the "Observer", 1966
It is the business of education in our social democracy to eliminate the influence of parents... We have decided that children shall not be at the mercy of their parents. It is the business of the local education authority to see that they are not.
Professor Frank Musgrove -- The Family, Education and Society, RKP 1966
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.--Benito Mussolini, _The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism_ (1932)
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. -Friedrich Nietzsche
September is when millions of bright, shining, happy, laughing faces turn toward school. They belong to mothers. --The Orben Comedy Letter
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.Plato (429-347 BC)
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. -- Bertrand Russell
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.--George Santayana (1863-1952)
Today we have a weakness in our education process in failing to understand the natural associations between the disciplines. We tend to study all our disciplines in unrelated parallel lines. This tends to be true in both Christian and secular education. This is one of the reasons why evangelical Christians have been taken by surprise at the tremendous shift that has come in our generation.- Francis A. Schaeffer
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius. -Felix E. Schelling
A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family. - Thomas Scott
Every schoolmaster knows that for everyone person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty who don't want to learn... much. ~ W.C.Sella rand R.J.Yeatman , And Now All This, `Introduction', 1932
What we ask is simply this, that the Bible and the teaching of the Bible to the children of this vast Empire shall be an essential and not an extra. That religious teaching shall be carried on within school hours, not without school hours... What! Exclude by Act of Parliament religious teaching from schools founded, supported by public rates! Declare that the revealed Word of God and religious teaching shall be exiled to the odds and ends of time, and that only at such periods shall any efforts be devoted to the most important part of the education of the youth of this Empire! It is an outrage upon the national feelings, and, more than this, it is, without exception, the grossest violation of the rights of religious liberty that was ever perpetrated, or even imagined, in the worst times by the bigotry of any Government whatever, foreign or domestic. -- Lord Shaftesbury , On the 1870 Education Act:
And how is 'education' supposed to make me smarter? --The Simpsons
Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. - Thomas Sowell 5/01/98
The mother university of England, the seat of letters and study at a time when Cambridge was a desolate fen,and Oxford a tangled forest in a wide waste of waters.--St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, founded 598, described by Dean Stanley in Memorials of Canterbury.
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands anat whom it is aimed.Joseph Stalin
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. - Bob Talbert
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.--William Temple (1881-1944)
Recently there have been great debates about religious education. I believe politicians must see that religious education has a proper place in the school curriculum. The Christian religion - which, of course, embodies many of the great spiritual and moral truths of Judaism - is a fundamental part of our national heritage. For centuries it has been our very lifeblood. Indeed we are a nation whose ideals are founded on the Bible. Also, it is quite impossible to understand our history or literature without grasping this fact. That is the strong practical case for ensuring that children at school are given adequate instruction in the part which the Judaic-Christian tradition has played in molding our laws, manners, and institution. How can you make sense of Shakespeare and Sir Walter Scott, or of the constitutional conflicts of the seventeenth century in both Scotland and England, without some such knowledge? But I go further than this. The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long.
Margaret Thatcher, speech to theChurch of Scotland General Assembly, 21.5.88
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. --Mark Twain
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.--G. M. Trevelyan (1876-1962)_)
He shows great originality, which must be curbed at all cost.--Peter Ustinov's "favorite school report," as quoted in his _Dear Me_
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils. --Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852)
I perceive all the professors of exoteric knowledge to be full of learning with no application - Day and night wasting their lives, pursuing discussion, chatter, and empty disputation.-- Ni'matullah Wali (1331-1431?)
An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions. Edith Wharton
How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified
By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.
William Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets. Part II, XVII, To Wickliffe
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
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