Learning Quotes - Page 38

• Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.443, GENERAL PRESS

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• Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.

  Kirsten Olson

  Want, Jilted, Students

  Kirsten Olson (2015). “Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture”, p.67, Teachers College Press

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• Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good job. What is a good job? One that pays well. Oh. And that's it? All this suffering, merely so that we can earn a lot of money, which, even if we manage it, will not solve our problems anyway? It's a tragically limited idea of what life is all about.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Jobs, Hard Work, Ideas

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• We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Growing Up, People

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.177, Macmillan

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• Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.

  Ivan Illich

  Reality, Information, Unschooling

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• It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but not really taught at all. Over-teaching interferes with learning, although the few who survive it may well come to imagine it was by an act of teaching.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Teaching, People, May

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• School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.

  Ivan Illich

  Teaching, School, Needs

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”

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• We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Children, Growing Up, World

  Joseph Chilton Pearce (1980). “Magical child: rediscovering nature's plan for our children”

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• A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Home, School, Color

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• Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Creative, Conditioning, Produce

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• The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Children, Parent, Earth

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• My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

  Margaret Mead

  School, Grandmother, Far Away

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• Some of us are just less damaged than others.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Ideas, People, Trying

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• One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, School, Differences

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• My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

  Richard Brautigan

  Teacher

  "C'est tout ce que j'ai à déclarer: Brautigan-Œuvres poétiques complètes".

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• It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Life, Education, Teacher

  "Why Schools Don't Educate". John Taylor Gatto's New York City Teacher of the Year Acceptance Speech, www.naturalchild.org. January 31, 1990.

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• Skill to do comes of doing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Educational, Self Esteem, Positive Attitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.162, Harvard University Press

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• I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

  L. Frank Baum

  Inspirational, Education, Giving

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• Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization...I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.

  Seymour Papert

  Jobs, Children, Teaching

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• I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

  Eric Jensen

  School, Cutting, Used

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• People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

  Warren Buffett

  People, Environmental, Trying

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• Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.

  Alfie Kohn

  Children, Decision, Following

  "The Homework Myth". Book by Alfie Kohn, 2006.

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• Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

  Bell Hooks

  Children, Passion, Thinking

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.13, Routledge

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• School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony.

  John Taylor Gatto

  School, Long, Waiting

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