Agency Quote by John Dewey

In some sense our aim ought to be to convert the school from an academic institution into an intellectual one. That shift in the…

— Elliot W. Eisner

“Schools were built to create an efficient transfer of knowledge from one generation to the next, and that purpose is no longer valid. School…

— Grant Lichtman

The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

— Albert Einstein

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.

— Miroslav Vitous

Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to…

— Ivan Illich

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When…

— David Brooks

The important outcomes of schooling include not only the acquisition of new conceptual tools, refined sensibilities, a developed imagination, and new routines and techniques,…

— Elliot W. Eisner

“Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important than the…

— John Dewey

“The most worthwhile form of education is the kind that puts the educator inside you, as it were, so that the appetite for learning…

— Sydney J. Harris

“The basic principle of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and…

— C.S. Lewis

The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it springs from…

— Derrick Jensen