In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think that books are fundamentally educational.
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
Education has for its object the formation of character.
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of.
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
Teaching does allow me to keep one foot in the youthful waters I tend to occupy in my novels, so I'm thankful for that. My students also remind me on a daily basis that the stories I collected during my district attorney days are actually interesting to people who haven't had that experience.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
The true teachers and educators are not those who have learned pedagogy as the science of dealing with children, but those in whom pedagogy has awakened through understanding the human being.
The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.
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