| Just
because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child
of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.
--
Marian Wright Edelman
|  |
| "We
must inoculate our children against militarism, by educating them in the spirit
of pacifism... Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate
children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate."
-- Albert
Einstein “Intellectual
growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”
-- Albert
Einstein |  |
Only the educated
are free.
-- Epictetus
| |
*
Unicef's
education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It
does, however, aim to address the huge bias towards education for boys at the
expense of girls in so many cultures.
-- Ralph
Fiennes |
Education's
purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
-- Malcolm Forbes
| 
| "A
nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights
which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance
that tyranny begins."
-- Benjamin
Franklin |
An
education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know.
It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
-- Anatole France
| 
|
Education either functions
as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation
into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes
the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and
creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation
of their world.
-- Paulo
Freire |
"People
are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with
unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated.
It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants,
mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are
coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that
stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first."
--
John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1958)
| "The ultimate
object of education should be, Gandhi said, to help create not only a balanced
and harmonious individual but also a balanced and harmonious society where true
justice prevails, where there is no unnatural division between the "haves" and
the "have-nots," and where everybody is assured of a living wage and the right
to live and the right to freedom."
-- Arun
Gandhi |  |
 | "If
we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war
against war, we shall have to begin with the children."
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
|
"Next
in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither
freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."
-- James A. Garfield
(1880)
| 
| "If
we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery
over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives."
-- Danny Glover |
| "Since every effort
in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being
foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another,
and in everlasting antagonism with each other.”
-- Emma
Goldman “The
most violent element in society is ignorance.”
--
Emma Goldman *
No
one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden
in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock
that treasure."
--
Emma Goldman |  |
No one has ever
died, from an overexposure to education.
-- Robert M. Hensel
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air
we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social
intercourse. -- E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
"...the
anxiety children feel at constantly being tested, their fear of failure, punishment,
and disgrace, severely reduces their ability both to perceive and to remember,
and drives them away from the material being studied into strategies for fooling
teachers into thinking they know what they really don't know."
-- John
Holt
"If you look
back in history, you will find the core mission of public education in America
was to create places of civic virtue for our children and for our society. As
education undergoes the rigors of re-examination and the need for reinvention,
it is cruicial to remember that the key role of public schools is to preserve
democracy and, that as battered as we might be, our mission is central to the
future of this county."
-- Paul D. Houston, Executive director of the American
Association of School Administrators
