To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
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We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
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Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no.
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If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.
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If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
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We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.
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It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
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Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.
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Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.
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As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
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