Postman & Weingartner The Vaccination Theory of Education?

Everyone, at present, is in favour of having students learn the fundamentals. For most people, 'the three R's', or some variation of them, represent what is fundamental to a learner. However, if one observes a learner and asks oneself, "What is it that this organism needs without which he cannot thrive?", it is impossible to come up with the answer, "the three R's".

English is not history and history is not science and science is not art and art is not music, and art and music are minor subjects and English, history and science major subjects, and a subject is something you 'take' and when you have taken it, you have 'had' it, and if you have 'had' it, you are immune and need not take it again.

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John Lubbock

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more thanwe can ever learn from books.

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Alec Bourne

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.


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Cicero

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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L. Ron Hubbard

As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life – and upon that depends their happiness.

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Galileo

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself

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Thomas Jefferson

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.

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Agatha Christie

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

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Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

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Thomas Jefferson

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.

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Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

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Laura Malm
April 10, 2003 — A happy and surprised Mo McLearly of Auckland last week opened his mail to find a $1,500 check and a letter from actor Tom Cruise.
McLearly, volunteer coordinator of “Drug-Free Ambassadors,” a Scientology drug-education and prevention group active in New Zealand for three years, received a letter from Tom Cruise, in New Zealand shooting a film, saying he was inspired by reading about the group’s dedication to educating young people about drugs.

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Isaac Asimov

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

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Lucretia Mott

A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.

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Robert Maynard Hutchins

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

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