Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkChris Hedges on Education, Critical Thinking, and Compassion
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"We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death."
Chris Hedges
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkBen Carson on Media, Sports and Developing the Mind
"Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain."
Ben Carson
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork“Academia is to knowledge” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkJohn Taylor Gatto on School and Individuality
"You can make your own son or daughter one of a kind if you have the time and will to do so; school can only make them part of a hive, herd or anthill."
John Taylor Gatto
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkJohn Taylor Gatto on Schooling and Education
"Is there an idea more radical in the history of the human race than turning your children over to total strangers whom you know nothing about, and having those strangers work on your child's mind, out of your sight, for a period of twelve years? Could there be a more radical idea than that? Back in Colonial days in America, if you proposed that kind of idea, they'd burn you at the stake, you mad person! It's a mad idea!"
John Taylor Gatto
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkJohn Taylor Gatto on Schools and Blind Obedience
"I taught public school for 26 years, but I just can't do it anymore. For years I asked the school board to let me teach a curriculum that doesn't hurt kids, but they always had other fish to fry. If you hear of a job where I don't have to hurt kids to make a living, let me know. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything, but blind obedience."
John Taylor Gatto
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkJohn Taylor Gatto on School and Institutional Criticism
"Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor."
John Taylor Gatto
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkJohn Taylor Gatto on School and Independent Thinking
"Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior."
John Taylor Gatto
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkNeil Postman: Technology and Education
"If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it."
Neil Postman
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkLearning by Understanding or Rote – Richard P. Feynman
"I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!"
Richard P. Feynman
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkQuote by Alvin Toffler on Learning and Illiteracy
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
Alvin Toffler
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkSchool System and Obedience – John Taylor Gatto’s Critique of Educational Institutions
"The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions."
John Taylor Gatto
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkMichael Meyen on the First Bachelor Generation and the Future of Science
"The first bachelor generation is just climbing the university chairs. People who are perfectly trained in their craft, who have internalized the hegemonic ideology, and who are good advertising media for a system that needs academic confirmation in order to be able to continue to say 'democracy'. This generation already determines what 'good science' is. It fills journals, conference programs, and so eventually textbooks, lectures, and seminars - with topics, perspectives, and terms it has taken from the political agenda and the tenders linked to it, and which it doesn't question because it couldn't learn that anywhere."
Michael Meyen
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkDoris Lessing Quote on Education and Indoctrination – Powerful Words About Schooling
"Ideally, every child throughout their entire schooling should be repeatedly told: "You are being indoctrinated. We have yet to develop an education system that is not an indoctrination system. We are sorry, but this is the best we can do. What is taught here is a mixture of common prejudices and the decisions of this particular culture. The slightest glance at history shows how unstable these must be. You are taught by people who were able to fit into a thought pattern set by their predecessors. It is a self-sustaining system. Those among you who are more robust and individual than others are encouraged to leave the classroom and find ways to educate yourselves – to form your own judgments. Those who stay must constantly remember that they are being shaped and patterned to fit the narrow and special needs of this particular society.""
Doris Lessing
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkKim Kiyosaki on the School System: The Truth Nobody Tells You!
"In the school system, they don’t want us to learn about money, because they just want to pump out good employees that do what they’re told. If you look at school, it’s opposite of what it takes to be successful. In real life: ‘don’t make a mistake’, ‘do as you’re told’, ‘take tests by yourself’, ‘don’t cooperate’, ‘do it by yourself’, ‘do it alone’, ‘there’s only one right answer’… No, there’s tons of answers to a problem. So you come out of school scared to death of making a mistake, you do everything on your own, you don’t cooperate, there’s no synergy, there’s no brainstorming. So I think, people come out of school paralyzed. I think the school system is criminal in that it kills a child’s spirit of learning. A child goes into school all excited, ‘Oh, I’m gonna learn and it’s gonna be great’, and then, the teacher says ‘Sit down and shut up, don’t talk, we don’t care what you’re interested in’"
Kim Kiyosaki