I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

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I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

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Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.

-- Heather Watts

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To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one’s moral and intellectual bankruptcy and it can only start a vicious cycle.

-- Vijayaraj

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In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

-- Sugata Mitra

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I learned from watching and I learned from doing.

-- Claire Bloom

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Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

-- Alison Gopnik

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