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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.
I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
We don’t focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.