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Selected Quotes on Education

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"You can't raise the average height of your basketball team by cutting the taller players."

Hank Bridges, 2001

"We trained very hard -- but it seemed that every time we were beginning '' to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life we tend to meet new situations by reorganizing, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization." Petronius Arbiter, 66 A.D.

"Self-education is fine when the pupil is a born educator."

John A. Shedd: Salt from My Attic

"As we steer toward the millennium, the same baby boomer militants who made school grunge possible - and who are now school offcials, politicians and PTA members - blame the way kids dress for everything from declining SAT scores and hallway violence to rampant truancy and lousy cafeteria manners."

Tom Jackson, Tampa Tribune: September 6, 1996

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information you get."

William Feather, 1968

"Nearly every county boasts a jail costing from $10,000 to $30,000, and yet many towns that are county seats cannot vote a sub-district to levy $1,000 for a high school building... May the people of Florida awake and realize that they owe their children a debt and pay it."

Superintendent of Holmes County, Florida,1896
From notes of convention of Florida Education Association, 1896 in Ocala.

Book citation: p.29, History of the Florida Education Association, 1886-87 to 1956-57.
Published by the Florida Education Association, Tallahassee, 1958.

"Too many fads palmed off for educational methods now usurp the place of stunning, knock-down, intelligent facts."

From notes of convention of 22 county superintendents in 1898 in Monticello.

Book citation: p.31, History of the Florida Education Association, 1886-87 to 1956-57.
Published by the Florida Education Association, Tallahassee, 1958.

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