pro-life” should be a shorthand for respect for the sanctity of life. But I will not let that label apply to people for whom sanctity for life begins at conception and ends at birth. What...

Why has pachinko swept Japan? It can hardly be the excitement of gambling, since the risks and rewards are so small. During the hours spent in front of a pachinko machine, there is an almost...

So many books to read, will I ever finish reading?

A Student is the most important person ever in this school…in person, on the telephone, or by mail.A Student is not dependent on us…we are dependent on the Student.A Student is not an interruption of...

It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face — the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

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,...

All the games were selected for them by supervisors and had to have some useful, educational purpose. The children learned these new games but unlearned something else in the process: they forgot to be happy,...

The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on in front of...

Todos los esfuerzos–que no son pocos–hechos por el gobierno, en materia educativa, se diluyen en el mar de porquería de los medios de comunicación monopolizados por la iniciativa privada.

Lo básico es dejar amplio margen para elaprendizaje

Invariably, knowledge dictates life, liberty, and death, but those who have historically occupied the seats of power not only dictate what is defined as knowledge but also dictate what’s included, what’s excluded, and how it...

Traps!” he said. “Never in the world! Don’t think it! Why, Gower is just a necessary olf bore. Nobody’s supposed to know much about him–except instructors and their hapless students.

A teacher will be frustrated if she is only motivated to teach what she has learned. Yet, if she is motivated because of the students, then she will learn from them how to teach.

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam — good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied...

Children are our future. We teach them today; what will they do tomorrow?

Research; the curiosity to find the unknown to make it known.

We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.

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

There’s a strange lack of knowledge about the role of drag queens in our culture. I attribute this to the appalling state of our country’s educational system. Others might blame an utter lack of interest....

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

Education is not just going through some structured systems and getting degrees. It is more about beautification of the heart and the world.

You can be an expert any field of study with consistent effort and consistent learning.

If you don’t have common sense, ask someone who does

The meaning of an education learned by a person is not truly measured by his growth attained in the profession, but by his action reflected in his assigned task consistently towards bringing the mark of...

We are capable of learning.