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Letter "E" » Education
«The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer»
Author: Alice Wellington Rollins
| About:
Education,
Questioning,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
finds, inspires, pupils, readily, teacher, test, The test
«The teacher is like the candle, which lights others in consuming itself»
Author: Italian Proverb
| About:
Education,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
candle, consuming, lights, The Teacher
«The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.»
Author: Kate Winslet
(Actress)
| About:
Children,
Education
| Keywords:
come along, get off the ground, go off, grounding, rebel
«The truth of it is, the first rudiments of education are given very indiscreetly by most parents»
«The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
profession, Save the Children, training
«The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his own education»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
educational, educational system, pursuing, shift
«The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Education,
Graduation
| Keywords:
roots of, The Roots
«The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
pupil, respecting
«The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Education,
Ignorance,
Taxation
| Keywords:
kings, nobles, paid, priests, rise, rise up, tax, thousandth, thousandths
«The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
drift, drifted, persuade, worlds
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