Albert Einstein
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of education have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe that it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry, especially if the food, handed out under such coercion, were to be selected accordingly.
Craig Bader - About Myself
L. Ron Hubbard
Education should not be associated with scholasticism. There are men who have never seen the inside of a university who are superior to those and worth more to society than those who carried away the highest honors. Herbert Spencer spent three years at school in all his life. Spinoza spent a very few years and then was expelled. Francis Bacon, the man who gave us all the fundamentals of what we call now the scientific method, went to school three years, revolted against Aristotle and left the halls of learning in a huff. Actually, as one walks down the halls of learning and looks at the busts of great, therein, he is struck by the fact that almost none were formally educated but took the world for their texts and professors. One might almost say that a professional educator is one who worships a dead illiterate. And one, with some research, might validly conclude that the surest way to succeed in any profession is to study something else at school.
Link of the Day:
L. ROn Hubbard - Study Technology
Education should not be associated with scholasticism. There are men who have never seen the inside of a university who are superior to those and worth more to society than those who carried away the highest honors. Herbert Spencer spent three years at school in all his life. Spinoza spent a very few years and then was expelled. Francis Bacon, the man who gave us all the fundamentals of what we call now the scientific method, went to school three years, revolted against Aristotle and left the halls of learning in a huff. Actually, as one walks down the halls of learning and looks at the busts of great, therein, he is struck by the fact that almost none were formally educated but took the world for their texts and professors. One might almost say that a professional educator is one who worships a dead illiterate. And one, with some research, might validly conclude that the surest way to succeed in any profession is to study something else at school.
Link of the Day:
L. ROn Hubbard - Study Technology
Oscar Wilde
The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence. in Grosvenor Square.
Link of the Day:
Homeschool.com - Famous Homeschoolers
The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence. in Grosvenor Square.
Link of the Day:
Homeschool.com - Famous Homeschoolers
George Bernard Shaw
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.
Link of the Day:
Poetry.com
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.
Link of the Day:
Poetry.com
Leslie A. Hart
The 145 year-old system we are still trying to use after 145 years of failure must be scrapped and replaced. Small improvements, even if attainable, will not stave off collapse.
Link of the Day:
Jon's Homeschooling Resources - Find a Homeschooling Family Near You
The 145 year-old system we are still trying to use after 145 years of failure must be scrapped and replaced. Small improvements, even if attainable, will not stave off collapse.
Link of the Day:
Jon's Homeschooling Resources - Find a Homeschooling Family Near You
H.L. Mencken
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, and brutal violations of common sense and common decency.
Link for the Day:
Scientology Artist from Clearwater Pledges to Help the Child
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, and brutal violations of common sense and common decency.
Link for the Day:
Scientology Artist from Clearwater Pledges to Help the Child
Benjamin Disraeli
Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
Link for the Day:
Homeschoolmum
Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
Link for the Day:
Homeschoolmum
John Updike
The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on their parents. So they provided jails called school, equipped with tortures called education.
Link for the Day:
Children; How to Raise Them and Give Them Hope for the Future?
The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on their parents. So they provided jails called school, equipped with tortures called education.
Link for the Day:
Children; How to Raise Them and Give Them Hope for the Future?
Richard Bach, Illusions
Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you.
You are all learners, doers, teachers.
Link for today
L. Ron Hubbard - Essays on Education
Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you.
You are all learners, doers, teachers.
Link for today
L. Ron Hubbard - Essays on Education
My thoughts
Regarding the John Dewey quote, "Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent":
I do believe the mass education has as its goal, the eradication of independent thought in children.
My 9th grade history teacher told us that the best place and time to live was ancient Egypt. She explained how easy life was for the people then, how much food they had, etc. (She probably wasn't taking into consideration the experiences of Jews in that time and place...)
On our final exam, she posed the question, "If you could live anyplace at any time in history, where would it be?"
I, not being stupid, answered, "While I understand that the best place to live was Ancient Egypt, I personally would prefer to have lived..." and I stated my own preference for Medieval England.
She took points off the essay question and wrote across the top of the paper in big red letter, "What about Egypt??"
She apparently didn't even read my answer...
And lowered my grade because I dared independent thought.
This was the same teacher who, under the guise of "studying history" had us write one another's obituaries. She claimed that the Egyptians wrote these obituaries for one another and called it the "Book of the Dead." And this, somehow, enabled the person to get to heaven.
As a kid, I really resented having a student she assigned write my OBITUARY. I didn't care for the task of interviewing this girl so I could write about her as if she were dead, too.
As an adult, I am horrified that that woman was permitted to have control of a classroom of vulnerable minds. She belonged in a loony bin!
And I've since learned that the Egyptian Book of the Dead was nothing like an obituary -- it was composed of things stated in the vicinity of the dead body - instructions on how to be free of the cycle of birth and death.
And people ask me why I homeschool my own children...
Link of the Day:
Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld - Death education at Columbine High
Regarding the John Dewey quote, "Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent":
I do believe the mass education has as its goal, the eradication of independent thought in children.
My 9th grade history teacher told us that the best place and time to live was ancient Egypt. She explained how easy life was for the people then, how much food they had, etc. (She probably wasn't taking into consideration the experiences of Jews in that time and place...)
On our final exam, she posed the question, "If you could live anyplace at any time in history, where would it be?"
I, not being stupid, answered, "While I understand that the best place to live was Ancient Egypt, I personally would prefer to have lived..." and I stated my own preference for Medieval England.
She took points off the essay question and wrote across the top of the paper in big red letter, "What about Egypt??"
She apparently didn't even read my answer...
And lowered my grade because I dared independent thought.
This was the same teacher who, under the guise of "studying history" had us write one another's obituaries. She claimed that the Egyptians wrote these obituaries for one another and called it the "Book of the Dead." And this, somehow, enabled the person to get to heaven.
As a kid, I really resented having a student she assigned write my OBITUARY. I didn't care for the task of interviewing this girl so I could write about her as if she were dead, too.
As an adult, I am horrified that that woman was permitted to have control of a classroom of vulnerable minds. She belonged in a loony bin!
And I've since learned that the Egyptian Book of the Dead was nothing like an obituary -- it was composed of things stated in the vicinity of the dead body - instructions on how to be free of the cycle of birth and death.
And people ask me why I homeschool my own children...
Link of the Day:
Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld - Death education at Columbine High
William Duane Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky 1822
In my opinion the prevailing systems of education are all wrong, from the first stage to the last stage. Eduation begins where it should terminate, and youth, instead of being led to the development of their faculties by the use of their senses, are made to acquire a great quantity of words, expressing the ideas of other men instead of comprehending their own faculties, or becoming acquainted with the words they are taught or the ideas the words should convey.
Link for the Day:
The Children's Communication Course, Courtesy of Churches of Scientology
In my opinion the prevailing systems of education are all wrong, from the first stage to the last stage. Eduation begins where it should terminate, and youth, instead of being led to the development of their faculties by the use of their senses, are made to acquire a great quantity of words, expressing the ideas of other men instead of comprehending their own faculties, or becoming acquainted with the words they are taught or the ideas the words should convey.
Link for the Day:
The Children's Communication Course, Courtesy of Churches of Scientology
William Glasser
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
Link for the Day:
What is Scientology? Freedom in LA
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
Link for the Day:
What is Scientology? Freedom in LA
I wanted to comment on Friday's quote.
I find it really wild that people actually send their children to the government for education. I mean -- these are people who complain about government ineptitude, waste, rude employees, bad management of the local DMV (where they have to wait 6 hours to renew their licenses...) Yet these same people who don't trust the government to handle their paperwork efficiently, would turn their children over to "the system" for education.
For 12 years.
If you disagree with my statements here, take another look at "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley!
Patriotism by L. Ron Hubbard
I find it really wild that people actually send their children to the government for education. I mean -- these are people who complain about government ineptitude, waste, rude employees, bad management of the local DMV (where they have to wait 6 hours to renew their licenses...) Yet these same people who don't trust the government to handle their paperwork efficiently, would turn their children over to "the system" for education.
For 12 years.
If you disagree with my statements here, take another look at "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley!
Patriotism by L. Ron Hubbard
Benito Mussolini; from "The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism," 1932.
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
Link of the Day:
Scientology - Karina Jones a Scientologist (Homeschooler)
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
Link of the Day:
Scientology - Karina Jones a Scientologist (Homeschooler)
Regarding the von Mises quote:
I do feel that most schools are set up to train children into working, but not necessarily thinking, adults. The textbooks alone demonstrate this - every child must be filled with data - but not taught to discover new things on his own. It is "training", not learning.
Children should be permitted to explore the world around them. Every brilliantly scientific person I know looks at things - examines things in real life. They take things apart and put them back together again. They are very interested in the world itself! Not solely in reading about the world in books. (Although they all do read a lot of different kinds of books.)
When education consists of sitting at a desk and perhaps doing a few experiments in the back of the classroom, children won't truly learn. They aren't free!
Here is another link on children:
Learn Study Technology by L. Ron Hubbard
I do feel that most schools are set up to train children into working, but not necessarily thinking, adults. The textbooks alone demonstrate this - every child must be filled with data - but not taught to discover new things on his own. It is "training", not learning.
Children should be permitted to explore the world around them. Every brilliantly scientific person I know looks at things - examines things in real life. They take things apart and put them back together again. They are very interested in the world itself! Not solely in reading about the world in books. (Although they all do read a lot of different kinds of books.)
When education consists of sitting at a desk and perhaps doing a few experiments in the back of the classroom, children won't truly learn. They aren't free!
Here is another link on children:
Learn Study Technology by L. Ron Hubbard
Ludwig von Mises
Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.
Link of the Day:
Attachment Parenting
Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.
Link of the Day:
Attachment Parenting
John Dewey
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.
Link of the Day:
Leisa Goodman's Home Page
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.
Link of the Day:
Leisa Goodman's Home Page
Carl Rogers
I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
Link of the Day:
Jane's Pages
I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
Link of the Day:
Jane's Pages
Lillian Smith
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Link of the Day:
Church of Scientology of Los Angeles
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Link of the Day:
Church of Scientology of Los Angeles
John W. Gardner
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
Link of the Day:
Index of main Scientology Sites
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
Link of the Day:
Index of main Scientology Sites
Jacob Brownowski
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Link of the Day:
L. Ron Hubbard
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Link of the Day:
L. Ron Hubbard
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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, and do not know a thing.
Link of the Day:
Foundation for Religious Freedom
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, and do not know a thing.
Link of the Day:
Foundation for Religious Freedom
Albert Einstein
IT IS, IN FACT, NOTHING short of a miracle that the modern methods of education have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe that it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry, especially if the food, handed out under such coercion, were to be selected accordingly.
Link of the Day:
Doc Wong's Scientology Resource Page
IT IS, IN FACT, NOTHING short of a miracle that the modern methods of education have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe that it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry, especially if the food, handed out under such coercion, were to be selected accordingly.
Link of the Day:
Doc Wong's Scientology Resource Page
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