education

"Education is about instilling a love of learning and helping children learn to learn, to become creative and critical thinkers. School district reforms don't do this. What the children are learning is how to take multiple-choice tests, how to decode but not analyze and how to comply rather than think independently. True reform starts with respect for students and teachers, with the belief that children come to school with an immense amount of knowledge and different learning styles. Expecting all children to be on the same page at the same time is an unrealistic goal that kills the joy of teaching and learning." - Clea Markman

"An educated population wouldn't fall for that trite nonsense of "they hate us because of our freedoms". For all of this nations greatness, we've squandered too much of it in matter that we should not be trying to dictate." - Douglas L. Hall

"The best way to build human capital is through education - both elementary and secondary as well as higher education that is truly world class." - Jeffery Pfeffer, Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.

"Education is a weapon,
whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."
– Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin(Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili)

"Every public school is at the mercy of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (which Nelson Rockefeller created and ran under Eisenhower)." - Gary Allen

Education is defind as:

"I wasn't a very good reader when I started working for the newspaper. I would read the comics and sports. I began to substitute the front page for the comics and the editorial page for sports and my reading and thought process' begin to improve." - Timothy Smith

"Our teachers are not failing our schools. We are tired of being the brunt of all the criticism aimed at the education system. Treat us with the financial, and societal respect afforded to prison guards, spend on schools what we spend on incarceration, and perhaps we won't need so many prisons." - Joan Kramer

"We arrive hard-wired with a few survival abilities, but the rest of our information comes from others, starting with our parents. What children learn in their first five years is the basis of most people's attitudes. Few break out of the prison of that early learning. This is not a secret to psychologists, dictators, religious leaders and those who wish to have their children accept their values, be they good or bad." - George Croly

"The huge number of generations that humans spent hunting and gathering holds clues to the origin of our instinctive behaviors, likes, and dislikes. By examining the early environment in which humans lived and evolved for we should find clues to the selection for adaptive behavior and the elimination of maladaptive behavior, which have left an imprint that we still bear today.

Although we have cautioned against believing all adaptations to be perfect, or all traits to be optimal, some human mental abilities are the results of adaptation to primitive circumstances. The enormous periods of time during which our ancestors were foragers and hunter-gatherers are likely to have been formative for our species.

To regard each human mind as a blank slate that is informed by learning only after its birth has been found woefully inadequate to explain the development of human language.

Genetic pre-programming by natural selection endows us with human linguistic abilities. Those in possession of such abilities, even in a more primitive form, had a clear survival advantage over those that did not: linguistic ability is adaptive.

Whenever we find widely shared human features and behaviors - especially those of great complexity - it behooves us to look for a possible adaptive explanation. In practice, it is the differences in behavior between one person, or group, and another that seem most easily attributable to learning." - John D. Barrow

The National Science Teacher's Association was offered 50,000 copies on DVD of "An Inconvenient Truth" by Paramount. The group decided to decline the offer due to the fact that it might offend ExxonMobil, who had given it $6 million since 1996, and the American Petroleum Insitute.

education and social change

It is the intent of corporate interests to ‘educate' every last individual on Earth to proscribe to the belief that "what is best for the corporation is what is best for society".

If corporations succeed in becoming the providers of all information then, rest assured, corporations will be seen as the saviors and beneficent rulers of humanity. This is already occurring.

When the only information you chose to release paints corporate reality as Utopian and fails to advertise the failures and destruction created and caused by corporate hegemony then an unbalanced understanding and opinion of reality will infect the souls and spirits of individual humans collectively.

An unbalanced and incorrect perception of reality will cause individuals to collectively make decisions that are harmful to the Earth and humanity.

Remember - we all prosper together or a few prosper while the rest suffer.