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The Illinois Loop website is full of quotations and other information about education. The Illinois Loop is an informal group of about 200 parents, teachers, school board members and others, mostly in the suburbs around Chicago. Their massive collection of education quotations is well worth exploring. Here are some quotations from their website:
71% of principals 60% of teachers 38% of students - Report in the January 2002 issue of School Reform News
Our K-12 system of public schools ... represents perhaps the largest socialized delivery system outside of Communist China. And the results are all too predictable. - Clint Bolick, director, Alliance for School Choice, in his book, Leviathan: The Growth of Local Government and the Erosion of Civil Liberty
Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations. - John Dewey, 1896 Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent. - John Dewey If you spend your own money on yourself, you care how much you spend and how well you spend it. If you spend your own money on someone else, you care how much you spend, but you don't care how well it is spent. If you spend someone else's money on yourself, you don't care how much you spend, but you do care how well it is spent. And finally, if you spend someone else's money on someone else, you don't care how much you spend, and you don't care how well it is spent. That is government. - Milton Friedman The NEA's ultimate goal is to tap the legal, political and economic powers of the U.S. Congress. We want leaders and staff with sufficient clout that they may roam the halls of Congress and collect votes to re-order the priorities of the United States of America. - Terry Herndon, NEA Executive Director, 1973 It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. - Robert H. Jackson, justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1950 The Fourteenth Amendment protects the citizen against the State itself and all of its creatures - Boards of Education not excepted. ... Probably no deeper division of our people could proceed from any provocation than from finding it necessary to choose what doctrine and whose program public educational officials shall compel youth to unite in embracing. - Robert H. Jackson, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1943 It is out of character for a country that prides itself on intellectual freedom to put the education of its young in the hands of the state. - David Kelley, "Learning the Hard Way," p. 17, Barron's, February 17, 1986 There was a day, within our lifetimes, when public officials stood in school doorways in an attempt to keep some students from entering. Now we have the sad spectacle of others symbolically standing in school doorways attempting to keep any students from getting out. - David W. Kirkpatrick Education for international understanding involves the use of education as a force for conditioning the will of the people. - National Education Association, Education for International Understanding in American Schools, page 33 (1948) Schools will become clinics whose purpose is to provide individualized, psycho-social treatment for the student, and teachers must become psycho-social therapists. - National Education Association, "Education for the '70s," Today's Education, January 1969 Far too many people in America, both in and out of education, look upon the elementary school as a place to learn reading, writing and arithmetic. - Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, National Education Association Yearbook, 1947 It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance, and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy. - Albert Shanker, late president, American Federation of Teachers, "Reding, Wrighting & Erithmatic," Wall Street Journal, October 2, 1989 We do not need any more preaching about right or wrong. The old 'thou shall nots' simply are not relevant. Values clarification is a method for teachers to change the values of children without getting caught. - Dr. Sidney Simon, creator of the "Values Clarification" curriculum, which sold over 400,000 copies Education ... has become in most countries at the present day a national concern. The state receives, and often takes, the child from the arms of the mother to hand it over to official agents; the state undertakes to train the heart and to instruct the mind of each generation. Uniformity prevails in the courses of public instruction as in everything else; diversity as well as freedom is disappearing day by day. - Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume 2, Fourth Book The only real measure of a teacher's competence, over time, is whether parents want the services of that teacher. - Unknown For more quotations from Illinois Loop, go directly to their website.
The English Teachers Network in Israel on the Internet (ETNI) - was founded by David Lloyd in 1996. The aim of ETNI is to provide an English Teachers Network on the Internet which serves as an English teachers professional support group (both by teachers and for teachers) and helps teachers work with the Internet in their classroom. ETNI is constantly developing and reinventing itself as a "Virtual Educational Community" where teachers discuss pedagogical issues and contribute their ideas and experience to the ETNI website. Here are a few quotations from their website:
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Last Updated March 26, 2010
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