Quotes About Education

In this book we are concerned with how to create mass organizations to seize power and give it to the people; to realize the democratic dream of equality, justice, peace, cooperation, equal and full opportunities for education, full and useful employment, health, and the creation of those circumstances in which man can have the chance to live by values that give meaning to life.

intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate

turn off your television and read a book!

It's amazing how many grandparents some children go through. At my last school one wretched child had SEVENTEEN. Another one died every time there was homework due. Think about it, class. SEVENTEEN.

You can change only what people know, not what they do.

Silence between teachers' remarks is a very important part of a lecture. Silence provides time for consolidation and thought.

Human beings, who are almost unique [among animals] in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." — Douglas Adams

You see a similar downward spiral at schools that try to measure teacher performance. They create new student tests for evaluating teachers that reduce time teachers have to teach real lessons, which lowers their scores, which, sad surprise, leads to more testing.

I want to be taught, not told. I don't mind being proven wrong or trumped provided I learn something, but I did not follow decrees well.

The best teachers use entertainment as a way to fuel teaching, not simply to make their students laugh.

Experience benefits only those who take the time to learn from it.

I began to see it was the community, not the librarian, that was important to the library. Librarians were only as important as the community they inspired. If I was going to continue with this career, my job wouldn't be to protect information, it would be to bring the community together and inspire them to appreciate everything a library stands for.

And the top performers know this, so they make learning a practice.

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy." They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life. —John Lennon, musician

Crooked Warden," said Chains. "Just this morning I was suffering from the delusion that I was handing out the educations here.

Your moral education's over." Jean stared up into the sky as the dockside receded and Bug took them out into the canal's heart. "Now you're going to learn a thing or two about war.

When schools fail the political solution is to blame the teachers. When in reality the biggest hurdle to improving educational results lies with the students and their families. The best teachers in the world can't teach students who aren't in the classroom and supplied with the proper textbooks and other material. Blaming the teachers for broken educational systems is like blaming a ship's crew for not being able to keep a rust bucket from sinking.

A child walks in to the living room and asks, "Dad, where does poo come from?" Without wanting to be too explicit the father replies, "Well, first Mommy makes us dinner. Then we eat it. Then the body takes away all the goodness from the food to make us strong. Then we sit on the toilet. What's left comes out as poo." Looking horrified the child asks, "But Dad, what about Tigger and Eeyore??

Q: What is the fruitiest subject at school? A: History, because it's full of dates.

Q: Why did the teacher jump into the lake? A: She wanted to test the waters.

They may not spell brilliantly, they may not have the most amazing command of the English language. But they are willing to learn, and they read like crazy. They write, because they have loved so much to read.

I haven't seen this much blood since those driver's ed films they showed in high school.

Those that don't know history aren't poisoned by it.

You can fuck your math teacher but you can't fuck math.