Tag Archives: Education
If Your Plan Is For 100 Years…Confucius
A Great Line That Will Make You Think About College
Al McGuire
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cab driver. Then they would really be educated.
Al McGuire
Sammy Davis Jr.
Walter Bagehot
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself to do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
Walter Bagehot
Bill Beattie
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think–rather than to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other people.
Bill Beattie
Experience
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.
Pete Seeger
In New Hampshire A Parent Can Object To The Way A Teacher Instructs
The NH legislature over rode Governor Lynch’s veto, a law that now allows any parent of child in a NH public school, to request the way the student(s) are taught.
In what is now a law in the Granite State, through a veto override last week, parents can object to any part of a public school cirriculum and have it replaced for their child. Perhaps born of a Tea Party nod to home schooling, it’s really an attempt to turn public education into anarchy. Read more…
Education
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
Al McGuire
The “exciting” Tea Party alternative to “Summer Camp”. (via The BigotBasher)
I’ve posted something similar to this, but this post has a lot more to it.
via The BigotBasher
Seeing the Forest: Did Koch Industries Write The Budget Deal?
Here’s a list of different programs and other things that was cut in the $38-billion, that was passed this week. When you read it, you do have to wonder if the Koch Bros., signature is all over it.
Read it at Seeing The Forest
Seeing the Forest: Did Koch Industries Write The Budget Deal?.




