Education Quote by Franz Boas Download Open image “I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be” — Franz Boas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Kind May Mind Psychology Slogans Teaching
“The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think” — James Beattie Copy Share Image
“Left to our own devices, we are apt to backslide to our instinctive conceptual ways. This underscores the place of education in a scientifically… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Getting people to think about what they think, and asking them questions about it, is the best way I know how to teach, — Eleanor Duckworth Copy Share Image
Perception of ideas, rather than the storing of them, should be the aim of education. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own. — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
“That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you… — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
“I’m sure you've heard the adage "thoughts are things" or perhaps "believe and you will achieve". There are variations on these principles, but they… — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake. — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present. — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment. — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
“I believe the present state of our knowledge justifies us in saying that, while individuals differ, biological differences are small. There is no reason… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
“In school you are taught to obey and not to think straight for your own good. Otherwise the world would be full of millionaires… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image