The more closely he has observed the tugboat, the more deeply he has been stirred by it, and the more eagerly and vividly he will strive to recreate it, in building, in drawing, in words.
Caroline PrattTags: education children progressive-education
Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way he has come, while bounds and leaps unevenly ahead in his growth.
Caroline PrattTags: education children progressive-education
It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.
Caroline PrattTags: education children progressive-education
From the earliest days, we knew that it was not possible to do good work with the little children without the help of their parents.
Caroline PrattTags: education children progressive-education
In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.
Alfie KohnTags: education
Education is a lifetime assignment
Orrin WoodwardEveryone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.
Roy Peter ClarkTags: reading education writing
Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
George WashingtonTags: education importance enlighten promote
The beginning [of a journey] is a terrible time to plan. It's the moment of greatest ignorance. In self-directed education, a lot of the value comes from exploiting opportunities that arise well out to sea, once I've seen some things and begun the learning process.
James Marcus BachTags: education learning planning opportunity
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile . . . That is not imagination. No, it kills it. . . . Your universities? Oh, yes, you have learned men who collect . . . facts, and facts, and empires of facts. But which of them will rekindle the light within?
E.M. ForsterTags: education
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