“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.” (-Stanley Kubrick)
Statistics for the American Public School System
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” (-Aristotle)
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What the activists say:
"American schools are failing, because they are suppressing children by
forcing them into a compliance-based model of education. Moreover, schools largely resemble prisons: children are cut from society
and social media is banned."
(-Nikhil Goyal)
"At an ideal school, adults understand that their mission is to help children
grow not just cognitively, but also socially, emotionally, linguistically,
ethically, and physically. And right now, in America, it’s all about cognitive growth (and even a narrow
sliver of that)—and little about anything else."
(-Sam Chaltain)
“Test-fixation, austerity, privatization, division, competition are not working
for our students. ...Our schools need evidence-based, community-based solutions like early
childhood education ...and project-based learning.”
(-Randi Weingarten, AFT president)
“Schools don’t need more money. They need to be held accountable
for how they spend it.”
(-Michelle Rhee)
"A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed. Education may be the only thing people still believe in in the United States. To question education is really dangerous. It is the absolute taboo. It’s like
telling the world there’s no Santa Claus."
(-Peter Thiel, PayPal Founder)
"American schools are failing, because they are suppressing children by
forcing them into a compliance-based model of education. Moreover, schools largely resemble prisons: children are cut from society
and social media is banned."
(-Nikhil Goyal)
"At an ideal school, adults understand that their mission is to help children
grow not just cognitively, but also socially, emotionally, linguistically,
ethically, and physically. And right now, in America, it’s all about cognitive growth (and even a narrow
sliver of that)—and little about anything else."
(-Sam Chaltain)
“Test-fixation, austerity, privatization, division, competition are not working
for our students. ...Our schools need evidence-based, community-based solutions like early
childhood education ...and project-based learning.”
(-Randi Weingarten, AFT president)
“Schools don’t need more money. They need to be held accountable
for how they spend it.”
(-Michelle Rhee)
"A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed. Education may be the only thing people still believe in in the United States. To question education is really dangerous. It is the absolute taboo. It’s like
telling the world there’s no Santa Claus."
(-Peter Thiel, PayPal Founder)
American Students Statistics
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” (-Robert Frost)
“You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school.
Well guess what, I get F's!!!”
(-Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes)
“Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand."
"Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently.
"That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.”
(-Christopher Paolini, Eragon)
“When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.”
(-John Taylor Gatto)
“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
(-Leonardo da Vinci)
“School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.”
(-Jim Benton, author of Dear Dumb Diary)
(-Jim Benton, author of Dear Dumb Diary)