A Six pack of qoutes

Mike Rose, “Stop looking for the structural or technological magic bullet- whether its charter schools or value –added analysis-that will improve education. Just when you think the lesson is learned-that the failure of last year’s miracle cure is acknowledge and lamented-our attention is absorbed by a new quick fix.

 

Bell hooks, “In simpler terms, critical thinking involves first discovering the who, what, when and how of things-finding the answers to those eternal question of the inquisitive child-and then utilizing the knowledge in a manner that enables you to determine what matters most.

Paolo Freire, “The capability of banking education to minimize or annul the student’s creative power and to stimulate their credulity serves the interest of the oppressors, who care neither to have the world revealed not to see it transformed. The oppressors use their humanitarians to preserve the profitable situation. Thus they react almost instinctively against any experiment in education which stimulated the critical faculties and is not content with a partial view of reality but always seeks out the ties which link one point to another and one problem to another.

John T. Gatto, “We have been taught that is, schooled in this country to think of success as synonymous with, or at least depended upon, schooling, but historically that isn’t true in either and intellectual or financial sense. And plenty of people throughout the world today find a way to educate themselves without sense. And plenty of people throughout the world today find a way to educate themselves without resorting to system of compulsory secondary schools that all too often resemble prison. Why, then, do Americans confuse education with just such a system? What exactly is the purpose of our public schools?

Lewis Black, “We have a silver lining: we rank 25 math, 21 in science, we fall behind just about in all topics in school except in one; Confidence. Who needs physics and math, geometry, just a little more confidence and he would had clear the roof.

Barry Boyce, “Kindness, caring, empathy, being able to de-center from your own point of view and listen deeply to others-these are the values that should be cultivated in our classrooms. These are the social and emotional skills that a person who experienced optimal nurturing condition would develop during childhood and adolescence and bring with them into adulthood.