Education Quote by Michael Penn Download Open image “When I was in high school, it was sort of the peak of progressive education.” — Michael Penn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education High High school School
My high school in Seattle, Lakeside, seemed conservative on the surface, but it was educationally progressive. — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
Right now, we happen to be in a general period of regression, not just in education. A lot of what's happening is sort of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In the main, the trouble with American education is that we have put into practice the educational philosophy expounded by John Dewey and his disciples. In varying degrees we have adopted what has been called "progressive education." Subscribing to the egalitarian notion that every child must have the same education, we have neglected to provide an educational system which will… — Barry M. Goldwater Copy Share
“Traditional education tended to ignore the importance of personal impulse and desire as moving springs. But this is no reason why progressive education should identify impulse and desire with purpose and thereby pass lightly over the need for careful observation, for wide range of information, and for judgment is students are to share in the formation of the purposes which… — John Dewey Copy Share
I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive. — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
To me, playing with words is like playing with your food. You shouldn't do it. — Michael Penn Copy Share Image
That was a real debate for me whether to change my name, which I felt was a lie, or to make up a band… — Michael Penn Copy Share Image
Knowing when it is over is the beginning of a new life and the end of an old one. — Michael Penn Copy Share Image
If folk is the music of the common people and not the intellectual elite, then that's what rock is. — Michael Penn Copy Share Image
I just had a real visceral, negative reaction to show-biz familes. They tend to be a freakish celebrations of dysfunction. Like a circus sideshow. — Michael Penn Copy Share Image
I've never been too comfortable with the whole between-song-banter thing. — Michael Penn Copy Share Image
Just talking about the schedule and logistics of a tour is fine, but if the interview gets into lyrics and the music in a… — Michael Penn Copy Share Image
I got into music when I was pretty young, and there were a lot of shining lights to me. — Michael Penn Copy Share Image
I wouldn't balk at having a hit single, because it would allow me some of the freedom to do some of the things I… — Michael Penn 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
