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Here, you'll find wisdom passed down from well-known authors, famous intellectuals, and culture makers throughout history about the benefits of learning in all its forms.
1. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” 2. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” 3. “Excellence is never an accident.
“Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.” — Walt Disney
Dewey's educational theories were presented in My Pedagogic Creed (1897), The Primary-Education Fetich (1898), The School and Society (1900), The Child and the Curriculum (1902), Democracy and Education (1916), Schools of To-morrow [52] (1915) with Evelyn Dewey, and Experience and Education (1938). Several themes recur throughout these writings.
In Democracy and Education, Dewey argues that the primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education. On one hand, there is the contrast between the immaturity of the new-born members of the group (its future sole representatives) and the maturity of the ...
Kilpatrick spent his professional career and the rest of his long life at Teachers College, Columbia University (TCCU), where he was instructor in history of education (1909-1911), received a Ph.D. in 1911 with his thesis (supervised by Paul Monroe) titled The Dutch Schools of New Netherland and Colonial New York (published in 1912 in various ...
20. "We don’t need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation." 21. "From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own ...
Eliot's educational vision incorporated important elements of Unitarian and Emersonian ideas about character development, framed by a pragmatic understanding of the role of higher education in economic and political leadership. His concern in "The New Education" was not merely curriculum, but the ultimate utility of education.