Philosophy Quote by Thomas Sowell

Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.

— John Kennedy

“teaching psychology is mostly a waste of time.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“We have to do a far better job of teaching our teachers. The great teachers—the teachers who influence you, who change your lives—almost always,…

— David McCullough

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take…

— Paul Wellstone

We found out that the young people who had a substantial number of lessons in the Resolving Conflict Creatively Curriculum ... not only did…

— Linda Lantieri

“I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet.…

— John Taylor Gatto

I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little…

— Bertrand Russell

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

— Ludwig von Mises

“I argued that exploring the world with our hands, testing out ideas by building them, role playing, and countless other activities are all natural…

— Tim Brown

The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back -…

— Rachel Cusk

The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think…

— Noam Chomsky

“A common misconception among youngsters attending school is that their teachers were child prodigies. Who else but a bookworm, prowling libraries and disdaining the…

— Steve Brody