Letting the Kids Make the Rules!
Dec 22, 2014
Letting the Kids Make the Rules!
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts…it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves. – Robert Hutchins
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left
to educate themselves. – Abbé
Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928
Education is not the filling of a pail, but
the lighting of
a fire. – W.B. Yeats
The objective of education is to prepare the young to
educate themselves throughout their lives. -
Robert Maynard Hutchins
Children need models rather than critics.
- Joseph Joubert
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in
the work. - Aristotle
Education is more than filling a child with facts. It starts with posing questions. - D.T. Max
Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.- George Orwell