QUOTES ABOUT EDUCATION

I found these quotes in a blog posted by Nate German, a Study Island user,
[ http://nathangerman.blogspot.com/2010/08/week-7-lesson-7-blog-vii-educational.html ] who appears to have found them at www.QuoteGarden.com

No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. ~G.K. Chesterton


The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. ~Bill Beattie


The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~Sydney J. Harris


Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein


The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt


It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, Ronald D. Fuchs, ed.


An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. ~Author Unknown


If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok


It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~Robert G. Ingersoll


Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ~G.M. Trevelyan


To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. ~A.A. Milne


Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. ~Abraham Flexner


Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~Edward Everett


Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. ~Ezra Pound


Education should be exercise; it has become massage. ~Martin H. Fischer


The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins


He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo


Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. ~Mark Twain


My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins


Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ~Will Durant


Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? ~Erich Fromm


Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs. ~Martin H. Fischer


Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. ~William Haley


I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. ~Tallulah Bankhead


A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ~George Santayana


Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ~Malcolm S. Forbes


An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. ~R. Baker


What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. ~Henry David Thoreau


Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. ~Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist," 1890


Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use? It's nice to be number one, but we can fix that. All we need to do is start the war on education. If it's anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we'll all be hooked on phonics. ~Leighann Lord


What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. ~Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie


If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. ~Cornelius Vanderbilt


Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ~Aristotle


Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. ~G.K. Chesterton


In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. ~Michel de Montaigne


Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~Robert Frost


Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928


Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know. ~William R. Inge


It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle


I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~Mark Twain


When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. ~Peter Drucker


If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous. ~Desmond Bagley


Education is the movement from darkness to light. ~Allan Bloom


Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. ~John W. Gardner


There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. ~Will Rogers


Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler Yeats


Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. ~Martin H. Fischer


With just enough learning to misquote. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers"


There is only one Education, and it has only one goal: the freedom of the mind. Anything that needs an adjective, be it civics education, or socialist education, or Christian education, or whatever-you-like education, is not education, and it has some different goal. The very existence of modified "educations" is testimony to the fact that their proponents cannot bring about what they want in a mind that is free. An "education" that cannot do its work in a free mind, and so must "teach" by homily and precept in the service of these feelings and attitudes and beliefs rather than those, is pure and unmistakable tyranny. ~Richard Mitchell,The Underground Grammarian, September 1982


The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with; and then the different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. ~Lewis Carroll


Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~Roger Lewin


They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing. ~Richard Yates


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 tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils. ~Martin H. Fischer


A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. ~Brander Matthews


If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. ~Heinrich Heine


You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day." ~Peter Brodie


The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life. ~Ernest Renan, Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse, 1883


Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~John Dewey


Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. ~John Maynard Keynes


Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. ~Daniel J. Boorstin, Democracy and Its Discontents


I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne


Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats. ~Martin H. Fischer


It doesn't make much difference what you study, as long as you don't like it. ~Finley Peter Dunne


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


We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. ~Albert Edward Wiggam


The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. ~George Santayana


The founding fathers... provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you. ~John Updike, The Centaur, 1963


You can get all A's and still flunk life. ~Walker Percy


The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. ~Will Rogers


My parents told me, "Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving." I tell my daughters, "Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job." ~Thomas L. Friedman


All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. ~George Eliot


Education is the transmission of civilization. ~Ariel and Will Durant


The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ~Bishop Mandell Creighton


If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality. ~Ivan Stang, High Weirdness By Mail

Reading Eggs 'Hatch' in U.S. Market: Archipelago Learning Becomes Exclusive Distributor of Popular Australian Literacy Product for Early Learners

Reading Eggs is Perfect Complement to Study Island, a Favorite of U.S. Teachers, in Archipelago's Line-Up of Online Instructional Programs

DALLAS, Aug. 9, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- To help young students 'crack' the reading code, Archipelago Learning, a leading subscription-based online education company, announced today that it has become the exclusive U.S. distributor of the school version of Blake Publishing's Reading Eggs. The playful, online early literacy program hails from Australia and is creatively designed to support core literacy teaching that will drive early reading successes and help students, ages three to eight, become proficient readers.

Developed by a highly experienced team of teachers, education writers, and developers, Reading Eggs comprises 100 research-based lessons within a highly motivational framework. The program is rich with an assortment of instructional tutorials, review activities, and games. Blake Publishing has a long history in publishing award-winning and internationally renowned K-12 reading materials for several major U.S. publishers. Its high-quality educational resources provide a vast array of literacy resources and programs for teachers and students, alike.

"We are thrilled to add this very clever and exceptional balanced literacy reading program to our Study Island family, and to offer it to our growing customer base," said Tim McEwen, chief executive officer for Archipelago Learning. "We understand the role that early literacy development plays in student achievement in elementary school and beyond. With this engaging product, we are giving preschool and early elementary teachers an important tool that will have their students experiencing tremendous success early in their literacy acquisition process, thus ensuring that reading for meaning is achieved."

Each of the simple-to-navigate lessons that make up the Reading Eggs program offer between six and eleven sections that focus on core reading skills and strategies essential for sustained reading success. The animated program begins at an emergent reading level, focusing on letter sounds, first sight words and reading simple sentences. Using their very own avatar or online character, students navigate their way through a host of fun and interactive activities as many times as they want. With each lesson, students gain valuable repetition and practice of the five pillars of reading skills the National Reading Panel determined essential for reading proficiency: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency. As lessons are successfully completed, students are provided a corresponding online-leveled reader as well as earn the opportunity to add a Reading Eggs' fun "critter" to their collection. After ten lessons, students complete a mastery quiz that provides teachers with a report summarizing what each child has learned thus far along with diagnostics to inform instruction.

For older students, the program's Story Factory opens up a world of story writing and reading where young scholars can write their own stories and enter them in a weekly story writing competition sponsored by Reading Eggs.

Teachers will find the diagnostic tests and student management tools useful in placing students in the appropriate reading level within the program. All student activities and progress are recorded, showing teachers a list of test results and lessons finished with a complete scope and sequence of content covered. In addition, the teacher toolkit provides access to a wide range of interactive whiteboard resources, 96 spelling tests, and interactive lesson ideas.

"The cool graphics, appealing songs, rewards, and work-at-your-own-pace program really grabs the attention of young readers, including struggling and reluctant readers," added McEwen. "The playfulness of the Reading Eggs program, combined with its strong instructional focus, creates a solution that is educationally rigorous but still suits the learning style of young children who learn best through play."

The complete Study Island product offering is available for purchase by schools, districts and learning centers, as well as parents and students. Purchase prices specifically for the Reading Eggs program begin at $199 for an annual, single class subscription. For more information please visit the Reading Eggs section of the Study Island website at: http://www.studyisland.com/readingeggs.

Contact your Kentucky Sales Rep, Pat Ryan [pat.ryan@studyisland.com] to register for a FREE Trial or, go to: secure.studyisland.com/readingeggs/schools_freetrial.cfm

Common Core Standards for Kentucky Now Available on Study Island

Study Island From Archipelago Learning Announces Common Core State Standards Product Update

Professional Development, Instructional and Assessment Materials Will Help Teachers Adjust Classroom Practices, Prepare Students for Transition to New Standards

June 30, 2010 2:45 PM EDT

DALLAS, June 30, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- When the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers released the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for K-12 education earlier this month, they set in motion a seismic shift in what students are expected to learn and how teachers are supposed to teach. Kentucky became the first state to officially commit to adopt the CCSS, and since that time, additional states, including Maryland, Michigan, Hawaii, Missouri, New Mexico, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Ohio and Utah have also announced their intent to move to the new standards.

To help educators ensure their students are gaining the critical knowledge and skills specified by the new standards, Archipelago Learning, (Nasdaq: ARCL), a leading subscription-based online education company and developer of the highly-acclaimed Study Island, announced today the availability of the first of their products built directly from the CCSS. The Study Island Kentucky edition includes on-line instructional content, supplemental resources, video lessons, a digital writing portfolio, on-line assessment development, and engaging animated games. In addition, the new Study Island Kentucky edition includes an extensive on-line integrated professional development module, with teacher videos, lesson plans, activities, and supporting materials to enable a smooth and effective transition to the new standards. Kentucky customers will be able to concurrently access both the prior Kentucky standards as well as the new updated Common Core State Standards from within the Study Island product, to provide districts and schools with complete flexibility. Updates to other Study Island state editions will be made available based on each state's specific time frame for implementing the CCSS.

"Change can be complex, challenging and expensive for schools and districts, but not with Study Island," said Tim McEwen, chief executive officer for Archipelago Learning. "Because we are 100 percent digital we have always been uniquely positioned to help schools and districts transition curriculum and assessments to new standards, simply and cost-effectively. It's no different with the Common Core State Standards and no doubt why we are one of the fastest growing providers of online education solutions to the K-12 market. Study Island is the most economical resource available to schools to support the transition to the new standards, providing an online resource built from current standards, a roadmap for helping educators transition to the new standards, and the most comprehensive coverage of the new Common Core State Standards and all included at no additional charge to our regular very affordable subscription price. In most cases, the annual subscription price of Study Island for a student is less than the cost of a hamburger and fries in a fast food restaurant!"

Through its large and experienced product development team, proprietary content management systems and authoring tools, Study Island's online instruction, practice, assessment, and productivity tools are built directly from state standards and the new Common Core State Standards, and are constantly updated. The comprehensive, web-based program combines rigorous content in math, reading, writing, science and social studies with interactive games and rewards that engage students, reinforce accomplishments and create a culture of academic success. In addition, Study Island's eLearning professional development workshops are available to help educators effectively transition to the new common core standards and optimally use Study Island's curriculum, assessment and reporting features and functionality. The goal is to speed student acquisition of fundamental academic skills and conceptual understandings, and to do so via a unique methodology that ensures learning mastery is sustainable and achieved in a fun and engaging manner that motivates continued student learning throughout their academic careers.

"Study Island has an inherent ability to anticipate and be ready 24/7 with the digital resources required to succeed in this ever-changing K-12 landscape," said McEwen. "Kentucky was the first state to adopt the standards and I know there is some concern among educators across the state about how they will be ready to teach and assess to the new standards in a consistent manner, and do so in a time of budgetary constraints. Study Island has always been committed to ensuring that our product is developed from the most current standards available for each state, and our customers can rest assured that we are completely prepared to integrate the new standards into our product for each state that adopts them."

Study Island is available for purchase by schools, districts and learning centers, as well as parents and students. More information along with pricing for individuals and quantity discounts for educational institutions is available at the Study Island website: www.studyisland.com; or, better still, contact Study Island's Kentucky Sales Rep, Pat Ryan [800.419.3191 x7617 or pat.ryan@studyisland.com]

Study Island Summer Camp

DALLAS, June 3, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Seasonal brain drain. It sounds serious, but in fact it's a pretty common occurrence among children when they return to school after the summer break. Experts agree that on average, students lose the equivalent of one to nearly three months of previous learning – in effect erasing this amount of learning from their mind.

The good news for parents and students is that this "academic atrophy" can be reduced and even eliminated. To help diminish summer learning loss, Archipelago Learning (Nasdaq:ARCL), a leading provider of online education programs to K-12 schools across the country, has launched Study Island Summer Camp, an engaging and educational supplemental program complete with summer themed, multi-curricular online games for students in grades three - eight.

"Many parents are looking to fill the 70+ days of summer vacation with fun and engaging activities to keep their children involved. At the same time they worry about their children retaining what they learned from the prior year, and staying sharp and prepared for the upcoming school year ahead," said Karla Kennard, Study Island's consumer marketing manager. "Study Island Summer Camp provides the best of both worlds; offering fun and engaging games that reinforce and advance learning. Since it can be used anytime and anywhere there is an Internet connection, children have the flexibility to log on and 'play' anytime they want."

Study Island Summer Camp offers an Elementary School course of study for grades three-five and a Middle School version for grades 6-8. Each program offers age-appropriate curriculum materials for math, science, English and social studies, many of them taken from the successful Study Island program used by millions of students in schools across the country. Working independently in quiz mode, game mode or with a printable worksheet, students can review information from the previous school year and even get ahead on the next grade level.

"We are continually looking for ways to enhance and support our vision," said Allison Duquette, chief marketing officer at Archipelago Learning. "We believe that given the right tools, all students can, and will indeed, flourish beyond our expectations. Combating summer learning loss doesn't have to be complicated or boring, it just takes a focused, fun program. We are very excited about Study Island Summer Camp and its ability to weave learning into summer activities that children already enjoy."

The product is available online until August 31, 2010 at a cost of $19.00/program.

To obtain additional information or to purchase the program, visit www.studyisland.com/summercamp or call 800-419-3191.

Group pushes for nationwide educational standards

Posted: Jun 02, 2010 2:37 PM EDT
From: http://www.fox41.com/Global/story.asp?S=12582802

By third grade, students should know how to write a complex sentence and add fractions, no matter if they live in Georgia or California. Eighth-graders should understand the Pythagorean theorem. And by high school graduation, all U.S. students should be ready for college or a career.

That's the goal of sweeping new education benchmarks released Wednesday called the Common Core State Standards. Kentucky is one of the states that has signed onto the project that aims to replace a hodgepodge of educational goals varying wildly from state to state with a uniform set of expectations for students. It's the first time states have joined together to establish what students should know by the time they graduate high school.

"With these standards, we can provide all of the country's children with the education they deserve," said West Virginia schools superintendent Steve Paine, who gathered with other educators and officials from across the country at Peachtree Ridge High School in Suwanee just outside Atlanta to release the final draft of the standards. "Having consistent standards across the states means all of our children are going to be prepared for college and career, regardless of zip code."

States are expected to use the standards to revise their curriculum and tests to make learning more uniform across the country, eliminating inequities in education not only between states but also among districts. The standards also will ensure students transferring to a school district in a different state won't be far behind their classmates or have to repeat classes because they are more advanced.

Under Common Core, third-graders should understand subject-verb agreement, fifth-graders need to know about metaphors and similes and seventh-graders must understand how to calculate surface area.

States that sign up are supposed to use the standards as a base on which to build their curricula and testing, but they can make their benchmarks tougher than Common Core.

All but two states -- Alaska and Texas -- signed on to the original concept of Common Core more than a year ago.

Critics worry that the standards will basically nationalize public schools rather than letting states decide what is best for their students. Texas' commissioner of education, Robert Scott, has said that the state didn't sign on to Common Core because it wants to preserve its "sovereign authority to determine what is appropriate for Texas children to learn in its public schools."

So far, the standards have been adopted by Kentucky, Hawaii, Maryland, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Another 40 states and Washington, D.C., have agreed to adopt the standards in coming months, said Gene Wilhoit, executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers, which joined with the National Governors Association in leading the Common Core project. Wilhoit was once a social studies teacher in Indiana, and has served as Kentucky's Education Commissioner. "We don't think it's acceptable that because a student lives down in Atlanta and not up here, they should have different outcomes," said Wilhoit before Wednesday's event in the northern Atlanta suburbs.

The federal government was not involved, but has encouraged the project, including adoption of the standards as part of the scoring in the U.S. Department of Education's "Race to the Top" grant competition. President Barack Obama has said he wants to make money from Title I -- the federal government's biggest school aid program -- contingent on adoption of college- and career-ready reading and math standards.

"As the nation seeks to maintain our international competitiveness, ensure all students regardless of background have access to a high quality education and prepare all students for college, work and citizenship, these standards are an important foundation for our collective work," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday in a prepared statement.

Common Core was structured over a year of meetings with teachers, parents, school administrators, civil rights leaders, education policymakers, business leaders, and others from across the country. The group produced multiple drafts and collected comments from more than 10,000 people online.

"The world is small now, and we're not just competing with students in our county or across the state. We are competing with the world," said Robert Kosicki, who graduated from a Georgia high school this year after transferring from Connecticut and having to repeat classes because the curriculum was so different. "This is a move away from the time when a student can be punished for the location of his home or the depth of his father's pockets."

Common Standards Initiative: http://www.corestandards.org/