Teachers and Teaching,
the essence found, in quotations & art.
Men must be taught as if you
taught them not,
And things unknown proposed as
things forgot.
Alexander Pope
Children are educated by what the
grown-up is
and not by his talk.
Carl Gustav Jung
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A good society is
one that helps each individual
develop his or her
genetic potential to the fullest.
It provides
opportunities for action to everyone:
to the athlete and
the poet, the merchant and the scholar.
It does not bar
anyone from doing what he or she does best,
and guides everyone
to discover what that is.
A good society
makes it possible for each person
to develop the
skills necessary
to experience flow
in socially productive activities.
At the same time,
it guards against anyone's exploiting the psychic energy
of another person
for his or her own advantage.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Intelligence is the
capacity to perceive the essential,
the what is;
and to awaken this
capacity, in oneself and others,
is education.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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And if education is always
to be conceived
along the same
antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge,
there is little to be
hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.
For what is the use of
transmitting knowledge
if the individual's total
development lags behind?
Maria Montessori
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A teacher affects
eternity;
he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
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- Without an integrated
understanding of life,
- our individual and collective
problems will only deepen and
extend.
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- The purpose of education
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- is not to produce mere scholars,
technicians and job hunters,
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- but integrated men and women who
are free of fear;
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- for only between such human beings
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- can there be enduring peace.
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- J. Krishnamurti
Further reading
Education and the Significance of Life Jiddu
Krishnamurti
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