Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkEducation as an Impediment? Quote by Allan Bloom
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"An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment."
Allan Bloom
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkNeil Postman – Engagement and Perception in Learning
"There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution."
Neil Postman
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkThomas Sowell: The Problem with Thinking
"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling."
Thomas Sowell
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkIvan Illich on School, Learning and Teaching
"The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught."
Ivan Illich
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkIf you’re teaching today what you taught five years ago – Noam Chomsky
"If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are."
Noam Chomsky
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork“The only purpose of education is freedom” – Leo Tolstoi
"The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience."
Leo Tolstoi
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkAllan Bloom: Books Shape Our Being
"The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for."
Allan Bloom
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork“Good English” – Quote by C. S. Lewis
"'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another."
C. S. Lewis
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork“In Times of Change, Learners Inherit the Earth” – Erich Fromm
"In times of change, learners inherit the earth"
Erich Fromm
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkEducation and Formal Schooling – Quote by Murray Rothbard
"It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling."
Murray Rothbard
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork“It Teaches You Too Much” – Quote by Noam Chomsky
"There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much."
Noam Chomsky
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork“Justice Is a Faculty” – Quote by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
"Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race."
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkLearning requires perseverance and discipline – Neil Postman
"...there must be a sequence to learning, that perseverance and a certain measure of perspiration are indispensable, that individual pleasures must frequently be submerged in the interests of group cohesion, and that learning to be critical and to think conceptually and rigorously do not come easily to the young but are hard-fought victories."
Neil Postman
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkSchool and Institutionalization – Quote by Ivan Illich
"School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught."
Ivan Illich
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkIvan Illich on Deschooling, Learning and Leisure
"I intend to discuss some perplexing issues which are raised once we embrace the hypothesis that society can be deschooled; to search for criteria which may help us distinguish institutions which merit development because they support learning in a deschooled milieu; and to clarify those personal goals which would foster the advent of an Age of Leisure (schole) as opposed to an economy dominated by service industries."
Ivan Illich