John Cotton Dana
Who dares to teach must never
cease to learn.
Clarence Darrow
(American lawyer and reformer, 1857-1938)
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other
man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
The first half of our lives is ruined
by our parents, and the second half by our children.
Bette Davis
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
If you have never been hated by your children, you
have never been a parent.
If you want a thing well done, get a couple of old broads to do it.
Simone De Beauvoir
It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely
by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the
responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.
Edward De Bono
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of
average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of the car is
separate from the way the car is driven.
Dorothy De Zouche
If I were asked to enumerate ten
educational stupidities, the giving of grades would head the
list... If I can't give a child a better reason for studying
than a grade on a report card, I ought to lock my desk and go
home and stay there.
Eugene Delacroix
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is
that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said
enough.
Lloyd deMause
The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the
amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its
children... Every abandonment, every betrayal, every hateful
act towards children returns tenfold a few decades later upon
the historical stage, while every empathic act that helps a
child become what he or she wants to become, every expression
of love toward children heals society and moves it in
unexpected, wondrous new directions.
Thomas
Dewar
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they're
open. John Dewey
(1859-1952 U.S. philosopher and educator)
I believe that every
teacher should realize the dignity of his calling; that he is
a social servant set apart for the maintenance of proper
social order and the securing of the right social growth.
I believe that
in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God
and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.
Education is a social process...Education is growth...Education is, not a
preparation for life; Education is life itself.
The result of the educative process is
capacity for further education.
The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he
gets outside of school in any complete and free way within the school itself
while, on the other hand, he is unable to apply in daily life what he is
learning at school. That is the isolation of the school - its isolation
from life.
The image is the great instrument of instruction. What a child gets out of any
subject presented to him is simply the images that he himself forms with regard
to it. If nine-tenths of the energy spent on instruction where spent in seeing
to it that the child was forming proper images, the work of instruction would be
indefinitely facilitated. Modern Education 1930
Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can
sell unless someone buys . . . [yet] there are teachers who
think they have done a good day's teaching irrespective of
what pupils have learned.
Charles Dickens
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing,
when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
Emily Dickinson
There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away
Nor any courses like a page of prancing poetry
This traverse may the poorest take without oppress of toil
How frugal is the chariot that bears the human soul!
We meet no Stranger, but Ourself
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church
The Soul Selects her own Society
I'm nobody, Who are you?
Are you — Nobody, — too? …
How dreary — to be — Somebody!
How public — like a Frog —
To tell one's name — the livelong June—
To an admiring Bog!
Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without words
And never stops at all.
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain:
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Ann Diehl
Vogue Jan 85
I think we’re seeing in working mothers a change from “Thank
God it’s Friday” to “Thank God it’s Monday.” If any working
mother has not experienced that feeling, her children are not
adolescent.
There are times when parenthood seems
nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
Phyllis Diller
We spend the first twelve months of
our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the
next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
Cleaning your house while your kids are
still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops
snowing.
Most children threaten at times to run away
from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents
going.
Tranquilizers work only if you
follow the advice on the bottle--keep away from children.
Ernest Dimnet
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to
educate themselves. (The Art
of Thinking)
Diogenes ("The Cynic")
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
I threw my cup away when I saw a child
drinking from his hands at the trough.
Benjamin Disraeli
U pon the education of the people of this
country the fate of this country depends.
J. Frank Dobie
The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one
graveyard to another.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The soul is healed by being with children.
Every day and hour... see that your image is a seemly one. You
pass by a little child, you pass by spiteful, with ugly words,
with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but
he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may
remain in his defenseless heart. You don't know it, but you
may have sown an evil seed in him, and it may grow... all
because you did not foster in yourself an active, actively
benevolent heart. The Brothers
Karamazov
Frederick Douglas
"Very well," thought I, "knowledge unfits a child to be a slave."
Norman Douglas
Education is a state-controlled
manufactory of echoes.
If you want to see what children can do, stop giving them
things.
Collin Douma
Often brilliance is dismissed as rubbish because nobody really expects it to
be there.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes
genius.
Peter Drucker
Education is already grabbing a major chunk
of America's gross national product. I believe that the U.S. now spends around
$1 trillion on education and training. This number will increase rapidly, but
the growth won't be in traditional schools, which currently take about 10% of
the GNP (kindergarten through high school, 6%; colleges and universities, 4%).
The growth will be in continuing adult education.
Davenport:
What industry do you
think has been affected the most by the information revolution?
Drucker: The biggest impact
will be on knowledge industries such as education and medicine,
which are in great need of increased productivity. The impact on
education will be profound, but first there will have to be a
critical mass of technology in the classroom. Soon we will have
some sort of desktop-access machine --it is unlikely to be a
regular PC --as standard equipment in classrooms. There are also
revolutionary applications involving simulation in medicine and
software for maintaining and repairing equipment in the military.
Of course, some of these same capabilities are being used in
businesses.
The following is the unabridged version of Erick Schonfeld's
discussion with Peter Drucker. The interview,
The Guru's Guru, first appeared in the November issue of Business
2.0 .
We can make the new technology available to the remotest
village in the Amazon. The obstacles are, first, enormous
resistance by teachers, who see themselves threatened. Secondly,
it isn't true that you've support for education in every third
world country. I worked hard in Colombia and helped found the
Universidad del Valle in Cali. We had a very difficult time in
those small coffee-growing towns because parents expected children
to be at work in the fields at age 11.
In India that's a great problem. Moreover, schools are an
equalizing force. That's a tremendous obstacle in Indian provinces
like Orissa, say, where the upper castes would bitterly fight
admission of lower-class children.
Judging by historical experience, the new online continuing education of the
already well-educated will not replace traditional education. New channels
of distribution are typically additions and complements rather than
replacements. Television, for example, did not kill radio or magazines or
books. The new medium, TV, walked off with much of the growth, but the other
media continued to thrive and grow, too.
What is an important
example of the Internet's impact?
The Internet eliminates distance. That is its impact. The
elimination of distance began with the railroad in England in the
1820s. The impact of the railroad was greater than that of the
Internet, and faster. The inventors of the railroad did not see its
potential. They built short lines, Liverpool to Manchester. The first
ones to see the importance were the Rothschilds, who built the first
long-distance line, from Vienna to Prague. And when the Austrian
chancellor went to the emperor, who hated the Rothschilds but had to
give his consent to this plan, the emperor just laughed and said,
"Thank God, at last they're going to lose their shirt. We already have
a stagecoach that goes from Vienna to Prague three times a week, and
it is always empty." That railroad was sold out from day one.
And so there is a misconception that size equals performance.
During the Internet bubble, it was argued that because the Internet is
important, it must be profitable. That does not follow. Whether the
Internet will ever be profitable -- as a business or as an industry --
is doubtful. But its impact is unbelievably great. The same is true of
the history of medicine.
There is a 12th-century
German proverb: "Don't go near your prince unless he calls for you twice." You
go ahead and do things. You don't ask for permission because that implies the
other fellow can say no. Yes, you risk ending up in jail. You have to take that
risk.
Louis Dudek
(Canadian poet)
Humanists may not know the second law of thermodynamics, there are
also scientists who think the Enlightenment began with
Edison.
Alexandre Dumas
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so
stupid? It must be education that does it.
Isadora Duncan
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no
true love in this world.
Finley Peter Dunne
You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him
think.
Maurice
Duplessis Canadian politician
Education is like alcohol; some people can't take it. Will Durant
(American teacher and philosopher, 1885-1981)
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a
progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Marriage is not a relation between man and a
woman, designed to legalize desire; it is a relationship
between parents and children designed to preserve and
strengthen the race.We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
Ed Dussault
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two
hands?
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Bob Dylan |
Replying to the Rolling Stone Magazine
(Nov.22/01)
interviewer's question about his reaction to the events of
September 11.
One of those Rudyard Kipling poems, 'Gentlemen-Rankers'
comes to my mind: "We have done with Hope and Honour, we are
lost to Love and Truth/ We are dropping down the ladder rung
by rung / And the measure of our torture is the measure of
our youth / God help us, for we knew the worst too young!"
If anything, my mind would go to young
people at a time like this. That's really the only way to
put it.
Interviewer: Do you see any hope for the situation we
find ourselves in?
I don't really know what I could tell you. I don't
consider myself an educator or an explainer . . . But it is
time now for great men to come forward. . . . People will
have to change their internal world.
Twenty years of schoolin'
And they put you on the dayshift.
(Subterranean Homesick Blues)
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