Education without critical thinking is indoctrination by another name.
04057 – Education is…
Education is not memorizing that Hitler killed 6 million Jews. Education is understanding how millions of ordinary Germans were convinced that it was required. Education is learning how to spot the signs of history repeating itself.
04017 – Prejudices Grow like Weeds
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. from Jane Eyre
03532 – Plenty Left to Learn
Educating yourself does not mean that you were stupid in the first place; it means that you are intelligent enough to know that there is plenty left to learn.
03250 -Making a Difference
One of the greatest joys about working in education is that you are surrounded by people who define their level of success by their level of impact on others. They do this work not because they seek to make a fortune; they do this work because they seek to make a...
03245 – Commitment to Public Schools
Far too often, communities lack the resources or the commitment to invest adequately in their public schools. We need to understand that quality education for every single person in our society is essential to our future. from A Letter to My Anxious Christian Friends
03201 – Education & Knowledge
Education is not merely the accumulation of knowledge. Education gives us the tools to access knowledge.
03054 – Music Enhances Children’s Education
Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel.
02936 – Education and Thinking
Education is not the learning of facts but the training of the mind to think.
02824 – Some People…
Some of the most generous people have no money. Some of the wisest people have no education. Some of the kindest people were hurt the most.