Educational Quotes

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If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness. — Albert Bandura
Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways. — Jerome Bruner
Knowledge is justified belief. — Jerome Bruner
Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits. — Jerome Bruner
Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too. — Confucius
Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. — John Dewey
Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced. — John Dewey
Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience. — John Dewey
It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children. — John Dewey
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere — John Donne
The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must… — Albert Einstein
A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is an act of courage. — Paulo Freire
No reality transforms itself. — Paulo Freire
Only through communication can human life hold meaning. — Paulo Freire
The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate the home are… — Paulo Freire
The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they must adapt to… — Paulo Freire
There is, in fact, no teaching without learning. — Paulo Freire
Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral… — Paulo Freire
This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing and being sensitive… — Paulo Freire

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