X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=GreatQuotes;h=44e82ff1409fc65b99c93b483e256a87c488e52d;hb=6e17aca60e39da25b6baa0e4f88ed08f81a645a6;hp=85f011f13962a44c3b36088949d8ddd002e22eab;hpb=9cb145827331658c44abbfd0d939752183c0f81b;p=wiki.git diff --git a/GreatQuotes b/GreatQuotes index 85f011f..44e82ff 100644 --- a/GreatQuotes +++ b/GreatQuotes @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading \\ the individual towards freedom. \\ â [[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/33738-all-religions-arts-and-sciences-are-branches-of-the-same | Albert Einstein, 1937]] -== On Knowledge and Education == +== On Education == "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." \\ â [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela | Nelson Mandela]] @@ -57,21 +57,6 @@ creativity and invention that characterizes children before \\ they are deformed by adult society." \\ â [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget | Jean Piaget]], pioneer of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_of_education) | Constructivism]] -âAt times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. \\ -When the eclipse of 1919 confirmed my intuition, I was not in the least surprised. \\ -In fact, I would have been astonished had it turned out otherwise. \\ -Imagination is more important than knowledge. \\ -For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. \\ -It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.â \\ -â [[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/01/einstein-imagination/ | Albert Einstein]], 1929 - -"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." \\ -â [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor | Christopher Hitchens' razor]] \\ -"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." \\ -â [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] \\ -"Facts are stubborn things." \\ -â [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams | John Adams]] \\ - "I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. \\ No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness... \\ The tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part \\ @@ -79,9 +64,38 @@ of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us \\ if we leave the people in ignorance." \\ â [[http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letters-of-thomas-jefferson/jefl47.php | Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe]] (1786) +Constructionism can't scale in school because of the prohibitive nature of narrow curriculum standards and even more narrow assessments. \\ +Since funding to schools is dependent on high scores, the schools will only ever teach to the test. \\ +A radical undoing of the current education system and funding mechanisms must be overhauled in order for constructionism to flourish. \\ +â Mark Barnett + +== On Epistemology == + +