Accidents Quote by Alice Hegan Rice

In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.

— Katha Pollitt

... there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of…

— Paulo Freire

A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma…

— Carl Sagan

In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse students about…

— Eugenie Scott

Evolution as described by Charles Darwin is an scientific theory, abundantly reconfirmed, explaining physical phenomena by physical causes. Intelligent Design is a faith-based initiative…

— David Quammen

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.

— Paul Harris

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that…

— Anne Sullivan

What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us:…

— David W. Orr

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you…

— Plato

“Teaching students the evidence for and against Darwinism is not the same as teaching intelligent design. The U.S. Congress has officially endorsed teaching students…

— Jonathan Wells

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

— Margaret Deland

... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which…

— Paulo Freire