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Single Idea 23851
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / a. Aims of education
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Full Idea
Education - whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people, or even oneself - consists in creating motives.
Gist of Idea
Education is essentially motivation
Source
Simone Weil (The Need for Roots [1943], III 'Growing')
Book Ref
Weil,Simone: 'The Need for Roots' [Routledge 2002], p.188
A Reaction
I can't disagree. Intellectual motivation is simply what we find interesting, and there is no formula for that. A teacher can teach a good session, and only 5% of the pupils find it interesting. A bad session could be life-changing for one student.
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[what educators should try to achieve]:
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Successful education must go deep into the soul
[Protagoras]
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322
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Intelligence is the result of rational teaching; true opinion can result from irrational persuasion
[Plato]
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2811
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A state is plural, and needs education to make it a community
[Aristotle]
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22588
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A city has a single end, so education must focus on that, and be communal, not private
[Aristotle]
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2847
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The aim of serious childhood play is the amusement of the complete adult
[Aristotle]
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11150
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain an idea without accepting it
[Aristotle]
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19979
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In monarchies education ennobles people, and in despotisms it debases them
[Montesquieu]
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8106
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In raising a child we must think of his old age
[Joubert]
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22786
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Children need discipline, to break their self-will and eradicate sensuousness
[Hegel]
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7224
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We need individual opinions and conduct, and State education is a means to prevent that
[Mill]
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14845
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Don't crush girls with dull Gymnasium education, the way we have crushed boys!
[Nietzsche]
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23851
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Education is essentially motivation
[Weil]
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4247
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It is a mark of our having ethical values that we aim to reproduce them in our children
[Williams,B]
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22369
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Are students consumers or products of education?
[Fisher]
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