General Education Classroom

Famous quotes containing the words general, education and/or classroom:

    “The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.”
    —John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)

    “A good education ought to help people to become both more receptive to and more discriminating about the world: seeing, feeling, and understanding more, yet sorting the pertinent from the irrelevant with an ever finer touch, increasingly able to integrate what they see and to make meaning of it in ways that enhance their ability to go on growing.”
    —Laurent A. Daloz (20th century)

    “The cloakroom pegs are empty now,
    And locked the classroom door,
    The hollow desks are dimmed with dust....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)