You must adjust. … This is the legend imprinted in every schoolbook, the invisible message on every blackboard. Our schools have become vast factories for the manufacture of robots. —Robert Lindner More about this quote Tags: education schooling standardization robots Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “schooling” I would agree that learning is a natural act if we are talking about the kind of learning that happens in a healthy relationship between a mother and her baby or between two people getting to know each other. But schooling is not a natural act. Quite the contrary: The institution of School, with its daily lesson plans, fixed curriculum, standardized tests, and other such paraphernalia tends constantly to reduce learning to a series of technical acts and the teacher to the role of a technician. Of course, it never fully succeeds, for teachers resist the role of technician and bring warm, natural human relationships into their classrooms. But what is important for thinking about the potential for megachange is that this situation places the teacher in a state of tension between two poles: School tries to make the teacher into a technician; in most cases a sense of self resists, though in many the teacher will have internalized School's concept of teaching. Each teacher is therefore somewhere along the continuum between technician and what I dare call a true teacher. —Seymour Papert in The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer More about this quote Tags: relationships education learning teaching schooling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: education school schooling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind. —Barbara Kingsolver More about this quote Tags: learning schooling sociology Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: learning soul children schooling harm Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I would agree that learning is a natural act if we are talking about the kind of learning that happens in a healthy relationship between a mother and her baby or between two people getting to know each other. But schooling is not a natural act. Quite the contrary: The institution of School, with its daily lesson plans, fixed curriculum, standardized tests, and other such paraphernalia tends constantly to reduce learning to a series of technical acts and the teacher to the role of a technician. Of course, it never fully succeeds, for teachers resist the role of technician and bring warm, natural human relationships into their classrooms. But what is important for thinking about the potential for megachange is that this situation places the teacher in a state of tension between two poles: School tries to make the teacher into a technician; in most cases a sense of self resists, though in many the teacher will have internalized School's concept of teaching. Each teacher is therefore somewhere along the continuum between technician and what I dare call a true teacher. —Seymour Papert in The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer More about this quote Tags: relationships education learning teaching schooling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: education school schooling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind. —Barbara Kingsolver More about this quote Tags: learning schooling sociology Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: learning soul children schooling harm Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email