Quotes About Education

Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English teachers inspiring us with a personal ideological fierceness about Tolstoy and Plato, Art teachers leading us through the slums of Boston, then back to the easel to hurl public school gouache with social awareness and fury.

'Macbeth' was the first play I ever read. In fact, I remember my brother Tom, who is six years older than me, coming home from school and telling me about it. He was the one that really got me going.

Workers who campaigned for Populist tickets were blacklisted and could not find jobs. Barriers to voting, such as the poll tax or education requirements, were stiffened. Press aligned with one party or the other "systematically played on racial, sectional, and class fears to alert readers to the Populist menace.

But now, interviewees agreed, any kind of money wins more respect than the qualities their people used to value: truthfulness, objectivity, considering the good of others, hard work, education or the wisdom of old age, humility, and open hearted generosity.

Withholding education from women was the original sin of man," she concludes.

puppies learn best from an understanding teacher.

Libraries were full of ideas–perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

They do not realize that knowing history is the only way to make educated guesses about present quandaries

When a student surpasses my expectations, I feel proud and betrayed.

Sex was a reasonable alternative to burning fossil fuels. Maybe she should teach it in class. Hey, kids, there is solar energy, geothermal energy, wind energy and sex. Ask your parents about that one.

She was very much ahead of her fellow students and, had she been with others as mentally mature as herself, she would have shown herself even more capable.

Maybe we were being a bit unrealistic, but we had this hope that if we could just get into the Ivy League, everything would be set. We dreamed of Gothic libraries and leafy green quads and romantic dorms with fireplaces and guys who were not only cute but also smart and charming, and, quite possibly, British. In college, we believed, we'd finally find our people.

Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher's diploma.

The newsletter contributes to the illusion of transparency," he admits. "People are overinformed and undereducated. They have this veneer of knowledge.

She began to teach herself Esperanto, reciting phrases as she polished and swept.

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

You took out a book on blow-job technique from the British Library? They shouldn't have books like that in there!

the most successful eighth graders from poor economic backgrounds had only the same chance of attaining a bachelor's degree as the least successful eighth graders from the wealthiest echelon of society

The end of Wisdom is freedom. The end of culture is perfection. The end of knowledge is love. The end of education is character.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance.