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«Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at once the ability AND the inclination of the mind to find knowledge, to pursue understanding, and out of knowledge and understanding, not out of received attitudes and values or emotional responses, however worthy, to make judgments.»
Author: Richard Mitchell
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at once, considered, emotional, inclination, judgments, literacy, portion, pursue, received, responses, schools, values, value judgment, worthy
«I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.»
Author: Stanley Kubrick
(Film Director, Writer)
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compared, etc., etc, explosion, Explosions, failing, firecracker, graded, grades, grade school, grading, motivation, nuclear, nuclear explosion, scale, schools, staying, the Big, The Explosion
«NEW RULE: 'Kidiots' Leave the children behind. At least until they learn something. A new study has shown that half of American high schools agree that newspapers should only be able to publish government-approved material. Almost one out of five said people should not be allowed to voice unpopular opinions..This is the first generation after September 11th, who discovered news during a 'watch what you say' administration...George W. Bush once asked, 'is our children learning.' No, they isn't. A better question would be, 'is our teacher's teaching?'»
Author: Bill Maher
(Actor, Comedian, Producer, Writer)
| About:
Comedy,
Politics
| Keywords:
administration, American government, approved, bush, Bush Administration, George, George W. Bush, George W, newspapers, New American, publish, schools, school teacher, September, shown, The Children, The New American, unpopular
«No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great Universities nor public schools / no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class / no Epsom nor Ascot! Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.»
Author: Henry James
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abbey, absent, American Army, American elder, American Life, American literature, aristocracies, aristocracy, ascot, castles, cathedrals, churches, church school, clergy, cottages, country house, court, diplomatic, diplomatic service, drawn, Eton, gentlemen, Great Court, Great Houses, harrow, harrowed, harrowing, harrows, houses, ivied, list, loyalty, museums, Norman, novels, old country, Old Court, old school, oxford, palaces, public schools, ruins, schools, sovereign, sporting, thatch, thatched, thatching, The Harrow, universities
«Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.»
Author: Horace Mann
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complement, complemented, complements, former, jails, latter, prisons, schools
«Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and around the world. His love and faith is alive in millions of Americans who volunteer each day in soup kitchens or in schools, or who refused to ignore the suffering of millions they'd never met in far-away places when a tsunami brought unthinkable destruction. His vision and his passion is alive in churches and on campuses when millions stand up against the injustice of discrimination anywhere, or the indifference that leaves too many behind.»
Author: Senator John Kerry
(Senator)
| About:
Martin Luther King
| Keywords:
campuses, churches, refused, schools, volunteers
«I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
(Inventor)
| About:
America and Americans,
Religion
| Keywords:
introduced, introduces, public schools, schools, type
«I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
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diligently, engrave, engraved, engraves, engraving, engravings, explaining, Gates, Gates of Hell, Holy Scripture, Holy Scriptures, schools, scriptures
«I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
accomplishes, attractions, awakening, awakenings, boys, compulsion, elective, instructor, instructors, marking, opening, professor, pupils, put on, scholarship, schools, school system, studies, The Attractions, ungracious