When I was a child, a volcano erupted unexpectedly in Iceland, burying a small town at the foot of its cone. All the children in the town were in school at the time, and they all perished. The parents sent their sons and daughters out the door that morning, same as they always did, and never saw them again. I remember my mother being profoundly moved by that tragedy. She always made sure that the last words we had in the morning were loving ones. That cannot always have been easy, but my memory is that she usually succeeded. —Barbara Cawthorne Crafton More about this quote Tags: love memory tragedy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. —Gaston Bachelard More about this quote Tags: life perception children Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day … we become seekers. —Peter Matthiessen More about this quote Tags: ideas ego opinions abstractions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is this idea now in this country that all people who succeed, succeed on their own, and all people who fail, fail on their own, whereas neither is true. The vast majority of people in this country stay where they're born. Very few people move too far from home. Rich people rarely become poor, and poor people rarely become rich. But we live in a society ruled by anecdote, so that we have no sense at all of what actually happens to most people. —Fran Lebowitz More about this quote Tags: success perception movement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. —Henry Adams More about this quote Tags: power teaching influence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result, I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this. —George Steiner More about this quote Tags: education poetry heart memorization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All intellectuals complain about their school days. This is ridiculous. —Lord Clark More about this quote Tags: education intellectualism ridiculous Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Education directs all our attention towards knowledge and attaches no importance to understanding. Exposing children to this kind of influence means that they reach adult life having lost themselves, being entirely dependent upon external things — possessions, the opinions of other people, appearances, and so on. —John G. Bennett More about this quote Tags: understanding education knowledge 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
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
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 do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. —Isaac Asimov More about this quote Tags: fear computers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. —James Branch Cabell More about this quote Tags: memory morality resistance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Relationships are never static. They have to evolve over time as the individuals in them change. —Sherryl Woods in Driftwood Cottage More about this quote Tags: relationships change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He who stops being better stops being good. —Oliver Cromwell More about this quote Tags: good aspiration better Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email