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Sep. 9, 2006 -

The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life. ~St. John Chrysostom

Aug. 20, 2006 -

"Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation." ~Jack Nicklaus (1940 - )

"No man can use his brain to think for another." ~Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)

"In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock." ~Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars." ~Les Brown (1912 - 2001)

May. 10, 2006 - Reading and Writing

Apr. 24, 2006 - TV Turnoff Week! (April 24 - 30, 2006)

TV Turnoff Week! (April 24-30, 2006)

“All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?”  ~Nicholas Johnson

"I find television very educational. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." -Groucho Marx

"Given our national television habit, it is no surprise that we are raising the most sedentary and most overweight generation of youngsters in American history. As they grow, these children will run increased risks of heart disease, diabetes, and other health problems -- unless they turn off the tube and become physically active." -US Surgeon General David Satcher

"Television is a chewing gum for the eyes." -Frank Lloyd Wright

"Television is no substitute for a parent. It doesn't help develop language skills; it's simply background noise." -First Lady Laura Bush

More Quotations for TV Turnoff Week:

http://www.quotegarden.com/tv-turnoff-week.html 

Apr. 22, 2006 -

Students do not need to be labeled or measured by more than they are. They don't need more Federal funds, grants and gimmicks. What they need from us is common sense, dedication and bright, energetic teachers who believe that all children are achievers and who take personally the failure of any one child. ~Marva Collins

Apr. 18, 2006 -

"Timetables! We act as if children are railroad trains running on a schedule. The railroad man figures that if his train is going to get to Chicago at a certain time, then it must arrive on time at every stop along the route. If it is ten minutes late getting into a station, he begins to worry. In the same way, we say that if children are going to know so much when they go to college, then they have to know this at the end of this grade and that at the end of that grade. If a child doesn't arrive at one of these intermediate stations when we think he should, we instantly assume that he is going to be late at the finish. But children are not railroad trains. They don't learn at an even rate. They learn in spurts, and the more interested they are in what they are learning, the faster these spurts are likely to be." - John Holt

Aug. 14, 2005 -

Aug. 13, 2005 - Religion and Education

The following 11 quotations have to do with religion and education, especially as related to public schools. Consider what these great men from throughout history to the present day had to say on the subject! Many more quotations on the Bible, religion, and education can be found in my book, Learning for Life: Educational Words of Wisdom. Click here for details: www.knowledgehouse.info/learningforlife.html 

Aug. 12, 2005 -

“Education is useless without the Bible.” ~Noah Webster (1758-1843) US statesman, educator, lexicographer

Aug. 11, 2005 -

“All education which is not founded on the Christian religion is one-sided, defective, and fruitless.” ~Friedrich Fröbel (1782-1852) founder of the first kindergarten

Aug. 10, 2005 -

“I am as sure as I am of Christ’s reign that a comprehensive and centralized system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief, and of antisocial nihilistic ethics, individual, social and political, which this sin rent world has ever seen.” ~A.A. Hodge (1823-1886) US theologian, missionary, pastor, author

Aug. 9, 2005 -

“There is no good reason why the biographies and writing of pagan philosophers should be admitted into our schools while the life, teachings and works of the Son of God are denied admission there….This is wrong.” ~George Q. Cannon (1827-1901) US newspaper and magazine publisher

Aug. 8, 2005 -

“If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.” ~William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) US statesman

Aug. 7, 2005 -

“The Scriptures say that the fear of the Lord is the chief part of knowledge; but the schools, by omitting all reference to God, give the pupils the notion that knowledge can be had apart from God….The public schools are not, never were, can never be, neutral. Neutrality is impossible.” ~Robert Thoburn, administrator of a large Christian school

Aug. 6, 2005 -

“Every public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday school, meeting for an hour once a week and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five day program of humanistic teaching?” ~Charles Francis Potter, author, “Humanism: A New Religion” (1930)

Aug. 5, 2005 -

“The public school has become the established church of secular society.” ~Ivan Illich (1926-2002) author, Deschooling Society

Aug. 4, 2005 -

“The public schools are an establishment of religion: the religion of humanism.” ~R.J. Rushdoony (1916-2001) prominent Christian theologian and minister

Aug. 3, 2005 -

“In spite of God’s urgent plea to protect and nurture the mind in accordance to His ways, millions of Christians separate the heart from the mind of their children by sending them to public schools. …. Surely we would not send our children to a state church on Sunday, where the god of humanism is served. Yet we do allow our children to go to the place of humanistic worship five days a week.”  ~Kevin J. Pierce, President of Worldview Ministries