Quotes & Sayings About Educational Philosophy

Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature may differ most profoundly. — Lev S. Vygotsky

By educating the young, we are building a liberating potential force indirectly. — Auliq Ice

Self-discovery is a sacred knowledge — Lailah Gifty Akita

All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less the kind of attention requiring effort is appealed to; the more smoothly and pleasantly the classroom work goes on. — William James

One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming. — Paulo Freire

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character; that is the goal of a true education. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Life is a book. Read it. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep moving onwards! — Lailah Gifty Akita

Live a simple life, doing what you love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? — Michel De Montaigne

The history of man is a must read poetry. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If only education will aim at teaching learners' real life and life in books and not just books, learners will learn and understand real life and not just books, and they will dare to face life with real life lessons and lessons from books! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

lessons of medicrity, to a great extent, produce students of mediocrity — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Knowledge is justified belief. — Jerome Bruner

Our education system often teaches us how to conform more than how to wonder and venture. — Debasish Mridha

What you dream of, you will possess. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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Render Educational Accentuated Discourse — Kamil Ali

For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere — John Donne

Thomas Jefferson ... knew what schools were for
to ensure that citizens would know when and how to protect their liberty ... It would not have come easily to the mind of such a man, as it does to political leaders today, that the young should be taught to read exclusively for the purpose of increasing their economic productivity. — Neil Postman

After the woman left, Gran, staring out back at the Zebra Forest, said to me, 'I'm a liar, I'll admit. But I pride myself on being a really good liar. That's part of my educational philosophy, too, Annie B. Mark that down. Lesson one: If you're going to do something, make sure to do it with excellence. — Adina Rishe Gewirtz

Positive goals lead to positive actions for purposeful life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Quality is a flying goal, always fight to achieve — Haruni Machumu

Creation is scientific. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself. — William James

We can help the next generation, with the stories we write today. — Lailah Gifty Akita

So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and cogent leftists at all can find expression in our controlled media and educational systems. Forget about wholesale culture- or civilization-critics like Marxists. Universities have to be purged of any "radicalism" that can see through to the roots of issues and pathologies, for the same reasons that workers have to have nascent unions aborted among them and contrarian newspapers and media have to be starved of advertising. — Kenny Smith

Education is the foundation of all human endeavors. It is the most noble of all the elements of human consciousness. — Abhijit Naskar

Awaken the spirit of divinity in you. — Lailah Gifty Akita

With self-courage, self-confidence and self-will, you will master the act. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Love begets faith.
Faith begets courage.
Courage begets strength.
Strength begets positive thoughts. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You must dare greatly, to receive the grace for greatness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You ought to recognise your special talent, for your specific purpose. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Pickpocket is a sink-or-swim profession, not something that can be taught in the comfort of your living room. — Martyn V. Halm

Education is the greatest manifestation of the innate potential of human mind. — Abhijit Naskar

The biggest problem of the world is not lack of education but brainwashing of innocent children by the religion institutes in the name of education. Brainwashing of innocent children no less a violence. — Amit Ray

It feels great to do what you love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Good bones of Bonesville," Sherlock Bones said. "If you know what you fear, you'll fear it less. — Jean-Luc Fromental

Knowledge is intellectual art. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another, intertwining of external and internal factors, and adaptive processes which overcome impediments that the child encounters. — Lev S. Vygotsky

Decision, Decision, Decision!
Choices, Choices, Choice.!
Decision and choices define life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

This moment is our greatest treasure. We cannot replay the past events. We have no control over future events. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children. — John Dewey

If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is. — Aristotle.

You must dare to dream. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits. — Abhijit Naskar

You ought to dare great things. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Education is not to be viewed as something like filling a vessel with water but, rather, assisting a flower to grow in its own way — Bertrand Russell

Eternity exist in a holy time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Divine self is rooted in love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you desire it, you can possess it. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association — William James

If you wish for it, you can have it. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Love what you do! — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes, insatiable curiosity and compassion are all that life requires of us. — James Qualls

Children are not only extremely good at learning; they are much better at it than we are. — John Holt

But for some reason the Department believed all students should learn the exact same way and at the exact same time, demonstrating that no one in Instruction knew the first thing about children. — Trish Mercer

Education is a relentless voyage of discovery. — Abhijit Naskar

Keep experimenting, your divine self! — Lailah Gifty Akita

My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah said 'Educating the child is everybody's business. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Motivation enhances human worth and potential. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The love for books is a paradise. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We must become just be doing just acts. — Aristotle.

It is no easy task to be good. — Aristotle.

Work with enthusiasm. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We humans can never learn everything. The purpose of human life is not to learn everything. Rather it is to learn from every single walk of life and put that knowledge into practice in the pursuit of making human life a little better. — Abhijit Naskar

Those who are fortunate to be educated, must light the flame of fire. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in company; morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything. — Michel De Montaigne

Be strong and begin again! — Lailah Gifty Akita

Think of the things killing us as a nation: narcotic drugs, brainless competition, dishonesty, greed, recreational sex, the pornography of violence, gambling, alcohol, and the worst pornography of all
lives devoted to buying things, accumulation as a philosophy
all of these are addictions of dependent personalities. That is what our brand of schooling must inevitably produce. — John Taylor Gatto

If you believe, you can achieve the set-goal. — Lailah Gifty Akita

She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old. — Horace

Based on our badly borrowed misunderstanding of the words 'secular' and 'spiritual' we seem
to have become blinded by the dominant intellectual ideology of our times, according to which schools as secular organizations are supposed to not have anything to do with matters of the spirit. Education has, therefore, become concerned only with matters of material life (eventually leading to commodification)... This dichotomy between 'education for social success' and education for spirit' must go if we want to make Indian Education more relevant for the future of India. Education needs to become more integral, more complete through a meaningful synthesis of the two. — Beloo Mehra

To learn six subjects without remembering how they were learnt does nothing to ease the approach to a seventh; to have learnt and remembered the art of learning makes the approach to every subject an open door. — Dorothy L. Sayers

My expectations from the university were perhaps too idealistic. I had dreams of learning things about innovation and discovery in the field of technology, but all of it hit the ground hard, when I faced with the pathetic reality of the so-called higher education system. To my surprise, I found myself stuck behind the walls of meaningless facts, figures and rankings. It occurred to me that, it was not actually a place for education, rather it was a place where you go to get your head filled with useless undigested information, that you'd probably never use throughout your entire life. It was not education, and moreover, it was definitely not science. — Abhijit Naskar

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits. — Jerome Bruner

Be firm with your decisions. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision, or an effluvium which assails our nose, no sooner enters our consciousness than it is drafted off in some determinate direction or other, making connection with the other materials already there, and finally producing what we call our reaction. The particular connections it strikes into are determined by our past experiences and the 'associations' of the present sort of impression with them. — William James

Mistakes are stepping stones for great achievement. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects. — Suzy Kassem

Education is something which should be apart from the necessities of earning a living, not a tool therefor. It needs contemplation, fallow periods, the measured and guided study of the history of man's reiteration of the most agonizing question of all: Why? — John D. MacDonald

education without inspiration is only a recipe for desperation — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock of ideas, any one of which may be inhibitory, yet you must also see to it that no habitual hesitancy or paralysis of the will ensues, and that the pupil still retains his power of vigorous action. — William James

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience. — John Dewey

Accept only the divine self. — Lailah Gifty Akita

No one likes to feel used. When the perceived focus becomes the content over the person, people feel used. When teachers are valued only for the test scores of their students, they feel used. When administrators are "successful" only when they achieve "highly effective school" status, they feel used. Eventually, "used" people lose joy in learning and teaching. Curriculum does not teach; teachers do. Standards don't encourage; administrators do. Peaceable schools value personnel and students for who they are as worthy human beings. ... If your mission statement says you care, then specific practices of care should be habits within your school. — Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz

An educated person would know that holding a degree will not make you entitled to a better job nor a better salary than someone who has no degree. — J.B.

Our stories must be written, shared and communicated. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I wish to continue reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Freedom is the courage to live your dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking. — Aristotle.

Fear is the greatest obstacle to any adventure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What would I have done without books? — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is, in fact, no teaching without learning. — Paulo Freire

You are capable of anything. Dream great dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets us, come out in the end in better shape than the glib and ready reproducer, its passions being deeper, its purposes more worthy, its combining power less commonplace, and its total mental output consequently more important. — William James

If nobody loved, the sun would go out. — Victor Hugo

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher. — William James

If the ability to read carries the average man no higher than the gossip of his neighbours, if he asks nothing more nourishing out of books and the theatre than he gets hanging about the store, the bar and the street-corner, then culture is bound to be dragged down to him instead of his being lifted up by culture. — Edith Wharton

There lived great souls in history. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life — William James