Educational Philosophy Quotes

Love is an act of courage. ~ Paulo Freire

All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less the kind of attention requiring effort is appealed to; the more smoothly and pleasantly the classroom work goes on. ~ William James

Wisdom is the inner form of man, and rarely are adjusted out ~ Haruni Machumu

Have you ever wonder about the misery of sleep? ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. ~ Ken Kesey

Find your passion and live it. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If a student commits suicide because they couldn't bear the pressure of education, it's not a sign of their weakness, but that of the system of education. ~ Abhijit Naskar

We can do the work. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Education is the future of a nation ~ Satyendra Singh 'Shyamal'

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking. ~ Aristotle.

I think the difficulty lies in the immeasurable vanity of the human adult, particularly the pedagogical adult,… which does not permit him to recognize as good any tendency in children to fly in the face of his conceptions of a correct human being; to recognize that may be here is something highly desirable, to be encourage, rather than destroyed as pernicious…. [Y]our teacher has usually well-defined conceptions of what men and women have to be. And if a boy is too lively, too noisy, too restless, too curious, to suit the concept, he must be trimmed and subdued. ~ Voltairine De Cleyre

education without inspiration is only a recipe for desperation ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If you desire it, you can possess it. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My expectations from the university were perhaps too idealistic. I had dreams of learning things about innovation and discovery in the field of technology, but all of it hit the ground hard, when I faced with the pathetic reality of the so-called higher education system. To my surprise, I found myself stuck behind the walls of meaningless facts, figures and rankings. It occurred to me that, it was not actually a place for education, rather it was a place where you go to get your head filled with useless undigested information, that you'd probably never use throughout your entire life. It was not education, and moreover, it was definitely not science. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Education is a relentless voyage of discovery. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Sometimes, insatiable curiosity and compassion are all that life requires of us. ~ James Qualls

Nothing great could ever be achieved, without personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you don't' know what you want, others will give you what they want. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character; that is the goal of a true education. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

The purpose of education should be character-building. ~ Abhijit Naskar

It was my assumption that skilled teachers spent their days imparting important and meaningful knowledge to eager students. I also believed, as many of you do, that I didn't remember or wasn't good at the things we learned in high school because I didn't pay close enough attention or didn't work hard enough. ~ Brian Huskie

Liberals rely upon Americans being too lazy to pick up a book and educate ourselves and our children properly. Changing this will require a new commitment among Americans to alter their lifestyles. ~ Daniel Rundquist

Imagination is glow of thoughts by supernatural force. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Going to school is rarely a choice at all, but rather just the thing you do because everyone else does it. ~ Brian Huskie

Love rekindles the soul of every man. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Mistakes are stepping stones for great achievement. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Motivation enhances human worth and potential. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for the identities that are in the process of construction, without taking into consideration the conditions in which they are living and the importance of the knowledge derived from life experience, which they bring with them to school. I can in no way underestimate such knowledge. Or what is worse, ridicule it. ~ Paulo Freire

The biggest problem of the world is not lack of education but brainwashing of innocent children by the religion institutes in the name of education. Brainwashing of innocent children no less a violence. ~ Amit Ray

Look ahead and gaze on the sun! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We must become just be doing just acts. ~ Aristotle.

Enthusiastic work is daring spirit. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Books are my greatest treasures. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm sure if Socrates were alive today, and had to sit through even a single meeting discussing how to use data to inform instruction, he'd kill himself all over again. ~ Brian Huskie

But if we get education right... it would acknowledge that the path to true learning begins nowhere else but in delight, and the words on the signpost say: "Once upon a time … - Isis lecture, 2003 ~ Philip Pullman

Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too. ~ Confucius

Be joyful and expect a great future. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A good pickpocket isn't afraid of intimacy. ~ Martyn V. Halm

You have a great passion for great works. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Discover the World give us more Education to Ourselves. ~ Jan Jansen

Most people want to be entertained, not educated. ~ Dan Lok

Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own. ~ Amit Ray

Search deep within your soul, you will find the light. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-discovery is a sacred knowledge ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life. ~ William James

The myth that if you don't start early, you might as well not start, tends to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. The music-making world that young people confront reminds me a lot of the world of school sports. After a lot of weeding out, in the end you've got a varsity with a few performers and an awful lot of people on the sidelines thinking, "Gee, it's too bad I wasn't good enough." We need to be careful about that. There seems to be an unspoken idea, in instruction of the young, that the people who start the fastest will go the farthest. But that's not only an unproven theory; it's not even a tested theory. The assumption that the steeper the learning curve, the higher it will go, is also unfounded. If we did things a little differently, we might find out that people whose learning curves were much slower might later on go up just as high or higher. ~ John Holt

If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when you begin to talk. That something can consist in nothing but a previous lot of ideas already interesting in themselves, and of such a nature that the incoming novel objects which you present can dovetail into them and form with them some kind of a logically associated or systematic whole. ~ William James

You will surely succeed in life with great passion and desire for self-study. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association ~ William James

Keep trying! You will succeed at the sacred time. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every great soul had great mentors. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Freedom is the courage to live your dreams. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Have no fear, most of the Indigo children that are struggling are the children that have had a very difficult time trying to live up to societies Indigo myth that developed around them ~ Tasha Heart

Civilization as well as education takes a downward spiral when it ceases to ask "What is truth?" and concerns itself primarily with what is measurable. ~ Katherine Paterson

It was a small but life-changing move. I didn't stop to ask myself then what would happen to all the kids who'd been left in the basement with the teacher who couldn't teach. Now that I'm an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they're being devalued, when adults aren't invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It's hardly their fault. They aren't "bad kids." They're just trying to survive bad circumstances. ~ Michelle Obama

Our stories must be written, shared and communicated. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Why won't you help me?

You have to able to manage on your own. ~ Diane Samuels

Work with enthusiasm. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Plant in the land of children whatever you wish to see in the life of our times ~ Lucy Wheelock

Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself. ~ William James

If we desire to be close to Spirit of God, we desire to dwell in clean soul with a clean body. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no matter what children should learn first, any more than what leg you should put into your breeches first. Sir, you may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the meantime your backside is bare. Sire, while you stand considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learn't 'em both. ~ Samuel Johnson

How decisive for the Christian educator, or for any educator of good will, is the revelation that man is made in the image and likeness of the three-Personed God? That is like asking what difference it will make to us if we keep in mind that a human being is made not for the processing of data, but for wisdom; not for the utilitarian satisfaction of appetite, but for love; not for the domination of nature, but for participation in it; not for the autonomy of an isolated self, but for communion. ~ Anthony Esolen

Test-oriented teaching strikes me as anti-educational, a kind of unpleasant game that subverts the real aim of education: to waken a student to her or his potential, and to pursue a subject of considerable importance without restrictions imposed by anything except the inherent demands of the material. ~ Jay Parini

No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that person to be absolutely incompetent, assuming a posture of disdain from my own position of false superiority. ~ Paulo Freire

Reading leads to good conduct ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah said 'Educating the child is everybody's business. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Knowledge is worth nothing, until it is put to practice. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Study to learn, do not study to pass". ~ Kamaran Ihsan Salih

A man only misfortune is to forsake his Maker. ~ Lailah Gifty, Akita

The path of light is quest for knowledge. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

America is polarized and divided beyond repair unless we renew our conviction that the health of our nation comes first. That we concentrate on repairing not only our stressed infrastructure, but also our people. Free or reasonably priced education beyond secondary school is more than a political issue; it is the primary solution to our nation's long term problems." Captain Hank Bracker ~ Hank Bracker

Knowledge is the most potent weapon ~ Thabiso Daniel Monkoe

Children are not only extremely good at learning; they are much better at it than we are. ~ John Holt

Every action is grace divine. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

we are all born educated, but we need education to be educated ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration. ~ Allan Bloom

The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes connected with the fortunes of the self, it forthwith becomes an interesting thing. ~ William James

I learned how to argue. They called it 'Debate'. I learned how to worship. I learned how to become an eager worker and a passive consumer.
But I didn't learn anything practical, like how to purify water, build a home, start a fire, grow food, or survive without the help of corporations. ~ Joss Sheldon

We have become obsessed with what is good about small classrooms and oblivious about what also can be good about large classes. It's a strange thing isn't it, to have an educational philosophy that thinks of the other students in the classroom with your child as competitors for the attention of the teacher and not allies in the adventure of learning. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively. ~ William James

The student is infinitely more important than the subject matter. ~ Nel Noddings

She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old. ~ Horace

There is neither replay of time nor life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Lord Salisbury's basic educational philosophy was that higher authority could, at best, have only a marginal effect; real desire to learn had to come from within. "N. has been very hard put to it for something to do," he wrote of a son who had been left alone with him for a few days at Hatfield. "Having tried all the weapons in the gun-cupboard in succession - some in the riding room and some, he tells me, in his own room - and having failed to blow his fingers off, he has been driven to reading Sydney Smith's Essays and studying Hogarth's pictures." Lady Salisbury did not share her husband's detached approach. "He may be able to govern the country," she said, "but he is quite unfit to be left in charge of his children. ~ Robert K. Massie

Perpetual possibilities exist to win the game of life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Since education has become a business, I had closed all the universities across the globe in the name of coronavirus until further order from you to make it as a service to reach the poorest ~ P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

You must dare greatly, to receive the grace for greatness. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be firm with your decisions. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learning
every teacher should know about it. ~ Daniel Goleman

lessons of medicrity, to a great extent, produce students of mediocrity ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Wisdom cannot be compared with a gold. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

But for some reason the Department believed all students should learn the exact same way and at the exact same time, demonstrating that no one in Instruction knew the first thing about children. ~ Trish Mercer

For me, all those systematic Bureaucracies of traditional schools jaded me. For me, I still couldn't understand why we have to have a factory style education for children living in the 21st century. Why hold them in place, asking them to read and repeat and giving them a number of tasks to finish? I still have no idea how exams and objective assessments could measure human behavior or intelligence. Is it some kind of barcoding human aptitude? Is it ethical anyway? ~ Neda Aria

You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock of ideas, any one of which may be inhibitory, yet you must also see to it that no habitual hesitancy or paralysis of the will ensues, and that the pupil still retains his power of vigorous action. ~ William James

Awaken the spirit of divinity in you. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Not everyone in school is learning. Not everyone learning is in school ~ Saji Ijiyemi

Every great soul had a great mentor. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Bloodshed bears only more bloodshed, so vengeance is never the key... However, third parties almost always make the right judgment in conflicts, when they're not engaged in it, but have witnessed and analyzed all the events... ~ Tamuna Tsertsvadze

Habit is second nature, or rather ... ten times nature. ~ William James