Books Quote by Scott Parker

“That was how education worked for the most part - someone disliked a system already in place and removed it without something new, or…

— M.N. Bennet

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons,…

— Robert M. Hutchins

“If our ideas and beliefs are held with an awareness of abstracting, they can be changed if found to be inadequate or erroneous. But…

— S.I. Hayakawa

“If you had a smattering of education you would realize that perfection of form can give validity to any sentiment, however preposterous.”

— Margery Sharp

“We stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national educational systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make -- and the result is…

— Ken Robinson

“Education which fails to clarify our central convictions is mere training or indulgence. For it is our central convictions that are in disorder, and,…

— E.F. Schumacher

“The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are.”

— Evelyn Waugh

“Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“But isn’t that what education is supposed to be about? To make people think?” “What kind of thinking is it when you deny something…

— Jerry Amernic

“How Common Core pedagogy directly contradicts well researched tenets on how cognition works.”

— Terry Marselle

“The problem is not people being educated. The problem is that they are educated just enough to believe what they've been taught, but not…

— MJ DeMarco

“we must guard against a tendency to require monolithic thought as imposed by political correctness.”

— Ben Carson