Educator

🇺🇸Noam Chomsky

Philosophy

atheism

b. 1928

"Spectator sports make people more passive, because you're not doing them—you're watching somebody doing them."

🇺🇸Booker T. Washington

Literature

1856–1915

"There is no power on earth, that can neutralize the influence of a high, pure, simple and useful life."

Max Stirner

Philosophy

individualism

1806–1856

"The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss."

🇺🇸Seymour Papert

Mathematics

1928–2016

"Should the computer program the kid or should the kid program the computer?"

Joseph Priestley

Science

1733–1804

"Too many christians have been chargeable with... confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John, and making of it a second person in the trinity, than which no two things can be more different."

🇺🇸Fred Rogers

Politics

1928–2003

"The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is."

🇺🇸Allan Bloom

Philosophy

1930–1992

"Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing—in addition to caring for man’s well-being—they were providing rights for themselves."

"Wisdom is having things right in your lifeand knowing why."

Julius Nyerere

Politics

Ujamaa

1922–1999

"Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic … Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino."

🇺🇸Benjamin Spock

Sports

1903–1998

"People have said, "You've turned your back on pediatrics." I said, "No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics."

🇺🇸Howard Thurman

Philosophy

1899–1981

"Community cannot feed for long on itself; it can only flourish where always the boundaries are giving way to the coming of others from beyond them — unknown and undiscovered brothers."

🇺🇸Manis Friedman

Literature

b. 1946

"If you help yourself to the benefits of being married when you are single, you're likely to help yourself to the benefits of being single when you're married."

🇺🇸William H. Crogman

Education

1841–1931

"The development of an individual will invariably be in the direction of his ideal, and will partake largely of the nature and character of that ideal."

🇩🇪Joseph B. Soloveitchik

Philosophy

1903–1993

"Newtonian physics found its apostle in Kant; modern physics is still awaiting its modern expounder."

🇬🇧Ken Robinson

Psychology

1950–2020

"It is my contention that Creativity is as important today in Education as Literacy and we should treat it with the same status."

🇺🇸Gilbert Highet

Literature

1906–1978

"The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning."

🇺🇸John R. Commons

Economics

1862–1945

"Other races of immigrants, by contact with our institutions, have been civilized—the negro has only been domesticated."

"Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion."

🇺🇸Paul Lazarsfeld

Mathematics

1901–1976

"Obviously something is wrong with the entire argument of "obviousness."

🇺🇸James Samuel Coleman

Literature

1926–1995

"Industrial society has made of high school a social system of adolescents...set apart, in an institution of their own."

🇺🇸Tomás Rivera

Literature

1935–1984

"I wanted to document, somehow, the strength of those people that I had known . . . when the migrant worker was living without any kind of protection."

"Western culture in our education system will make our youth forget our cultural heritage, and will be completely Westernised. A country which forgets its own culture also loses its vibrancy."

"p. 176; cited in: Albert Lepawsky , Administration, p. 194-5"

🇺🇸Edward Dorr Griffin

Education

1770–1837

"Edward Dorr Griffin : Williams President 1821-1836 via Williams College"

🇺🇸Noah Levine

Literature

b. 1971

"Mindfulness is defined as nonjudgmental, investigative, kind, and responsive awareness. This sort of awareness takes intentional training of the mind."

🇦🇹Martin Buber

Philosophy

Existentialism

1878–1965

"The Thou encounters me by grace — it cannot be found by seeking. But that I speak the basic word to it is a deed of my whole being, is my essential deed."

🇺🇸Ta-Nehisi Coates

Literature

b. 1975

"I was young and could not see the weaponry my ancestors had left for me, the shield in the tall brown grass, the ax lying right next to the tree."

🇺🇸Edward Payson Evans

Education

1831–1917

"f animals may be rendered liable to judicial punishment for injuries done to man, one would naturally infer that they should also enjoy legal protection against human cruelty."

🇺🇸Nnedi Okorafor

Literature

Africanfuturism

b. 1974

"There is nothing that a man must believe that can’t be seen or touched or sensed."

🇫🇷Georges Hébert

Philosophy

1875–1957

"Why be a champion jumper or a special team member in any sport, if you cannot climb or swim?"

🇺🇸Lupe Fiasco

Music

b. 1982

"Fear and Sex are the two most effective weapons that are used against the people. Tempering desire motivates liberation."

🇺🇸Chester A. Arthur

Politics

1829–1886

"Honors to me now are not what they once were."

"In less than four years he had transformed Macedonia from a backward and primitive kingdom to one of the most powerful states in the Greek world."

"Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task."

🇺🇸Irving Greenberg

Religion

b. 1933

"For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter Between Judaism and Christianity" — a lecture at Boston College"

"When I am on my own and quiet, the landscape tells you a great deal and Turner and Cotman talk to me from the clouds."

🇺🇸Kingman Brewster

Politics

1919–1988

"There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation."

🇬🇧Owain Owain

Literature

1929–1993

"Let the language which is on the tongues of our children be treated by our people with that reverence, that love and that care which civilized communities bestow on the most precious of their national treasures."