“Just cuz you get to the end doesn’t mean you know what happened.”
“We learn and grow Always building on what we know”
“The greatest obstacle to true learning is the inability to say I don t know.”
“For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.”
“There is more than one road to spiritual salvation. We discover a philosophical way of living by encountering the world, culling knowledge from all available resources, and thinking reverently about life.”
“You have no idea how many men are spoiled by what is called education. For the most part, colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. If Shakespeare had graduated at Oxford, he might have been a quibbling attorney, or a hypocritical parson.”
“Progress daily in your own uncertainty. Live in awareness of the questions.”
“I am daily learning To be the reluctant guardian of your memories There was light in those eyes; I miss that”
“I m not suggesting that teachers never tell the truth, only that it isn t necessary to do it all the time. Since coming to one s own conclusions is mostly how we learn, the real job of a teacher is to force students to come to sensible conclusions by confronting what they already believe with stuff that is antithetical to those beliefs. A confused person has only 2 choices. Admit he is confused and doesn t care, or resolve the confusion. Resolving the confusion invloves thinking. Teachers can encourage thinking by making sure students have something confusing to think about.”
“After all, what is education, if not the unparalleled means to transcend the self- imposed physical limits of the mind and the body.”
“Certain things need to be done again and again in life, but those things can be learned only in context, not as an abstraction. Different contexts must be provided in order to motivate students and to provide real world skills that will be remembered, not because they were studied and tested but because they were practicied again and again.”
“There are endless books about what every third grader must know that use the idea that factual knowledge is the basis of the ability to read as their justification. Unfortunately, the writers of these tracts have misunderstood the cognitive science behind those statements. It is difficult to read things when you don t understand what they are about, but it does not follow from that thatthe solution is to ram that knowledge down kids throats and then have them read. It is much more clever to have them read about what they know and to gradually increase their knowledge through stories that cause them to have to learn more in order to make the stories understandable to them.”
“Psychologically speaking, far from being worthless, a system is indeed necessary, for any kind of human endeavor. A structure aids in the mind’s endeavor of learning. But the moment the mind becomes dependent on the system and starts trusting the system more than the internal faculties of the mind, the very element of education fades away from the system.”
“All knowledge is born in the mind, and circumstances make them manifest.”
“The methodical implementation of modern human faculties that allow us human beings to transcend the physical limits of biological evolution is Education. However, today, the term education has become somehow synonymous with economic benefits and due to the primeval craving for security, it has disgracefully lost its very core of transcendence into the unknown. Thus, the very evolutionary seeds that gave birth to the method known as education have gone almost extinct in the modern industrialized system of soulless competition and regurgitation. Hence emerged the reason for me to get to the root of its quite unofficially accepted problems, and to concoct the thought processes that would make necessary amendments to the perceptual errors of what I call the three major nodes of education system, which are the teachers, the students and the parents.”
“A proactive learner can have the ability to acquire a vast amount knowledge to use critical thinking because he or she has the passion comprehending complex principles, theories and tasks in daily life and career settings.”
“如果你不能改變所處的環境，那你的一生往往就在這個環境中，被它所拘束、被它所困厄，你很難改變、擺脫自己原有的命運。所以人如果要改變自己的命運，就要去找一個能夠實現希望的好環境。但問題來了，很多人都想改變自己所處的環境，可是辦得到嗎？...... 你想要改變你所處的環境，第一步就是改變你自己。如果你不能讓自己成為好環境需要的人，你永遠不可能到那個環境去。...... 但是人要怎麼樣才能改變自己呢？只有一個字：『學』！”