Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the...

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.

It would be better to have no school at all than the schools we now have. Encouraged, instead of frightened, children could learn several languages before reaching age of four, at that age engaging in...

All men are born free: just not for long.

The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it’s to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who...

Teaching is a Creative profession, it is our duty as School Leaders and Education Influencers to offer the right climate to foster innovation and support Innovative Teaching practices within our schools, and that’s what will...

Why is it that children, taught the names of the months and the fact that there are twelve of them, don’t ask why the ninth is called the seventh (September), the tenth called the eight...

Education these days is making youths suffer like mental patients, but no one has anything to say about it because there is no other option to be given.

In brief, the teaching process, as commonly observed, has nothing to do with the investigation and establishment of facts, assuming that actual facts may ever be determined. Its sole purpose is to cram the pupils,...

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

Reading is everything. Read to enrich your world.

To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker’s already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

School should become the place where teachers, not just students, learn.

Computer mistake in grade-giving resulted in academic failure of several brilliant students. After some years the mistake was discovered. Letter was sent to each student inviting him to resume his studies. Each replied he was...

School overpopulates students’ minds with too much of what happened yesterday; seldom with what the students can do today, or, tomorrow.

Education is our path to change. Minds and hearts are brightened via learning.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words,...

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and...

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

When access to information was limited, we needed to load student sup with facts. Now, when we have no scarcity of facts or the access to them, we need to load them up with understanding.

Those who educate us can never be forgotten. Wherever we are, they will always be in our heart and mind.

At a time India was known as golden bird because of its huge amount of gold assets. Let’s make India once again the same golden bird full of innovation and technology.

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn’t spoil.

Ah. You know, people like you, Ogu, really have no idea what the real India is like. Especially you – South Delhi is such a vulgar place, and your only companion there is Pultukaku, you...

Read good books to improve yourself.

Respect is not the equivalent to ‘liking’ a student or teacher; it is the ability to have a high regard for the role of another. In order to receive respect, we should demonstrate it first…

I mean– no offense, Leonard, but you really don’t like to climb ropes, and get into the Marine Corps, and kill your countriy’s enemies, do you?”I said that it wasn’t one of the big goals...

I’m happy for you Agastya,you’re leaving for a more meaningful context. This place is like a parody, a complete farce, they’re trying to build another Cambridge here. At my old University I used to teach...

Children usually have a natural curiosity about the world and everything in it until they get to school and somebody throws them against the locker because they get A’s and act intelligent. After that, some...

Depth of understanding involves something which is more than merely a matter of deconstructive alertness; it involves a measure of interpretative charity and at least the beginnings of a wide responsiveness.

education without inspiration is only a recipe for desperation

It is through vision that innovation is conceived;through will power it is then materialized.

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one’s nerve.

The message for all students should be: Put down the bong and get to work, because the number of curious, eager-to-learn peers around the world with the means and ambition to get a great college...

People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.

Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of “one-right-way” thinking on the grand scale. Children and families need some relief from government surveillance and intimidation if original expressions belonging to...

Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.

African leaders must desire to liberates it’s people through intensive education (formal and informal). The African people deserve to be educated.