Quotes About Education

What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.

The teacher usually learns more than the pupil. Isn't that true?" "It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils," came a low growl from somewhere on the table, "without undergoing a prefrontal lobotomy.

The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true? 'It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils,' came a low growl from somewhere on the table, 'without undergoing a pre-frontal lobotomy.

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I went to Cambridge University. I took a number of baths—and a degree in English.

It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.

He knew that the fuel his brain craved could only be found in a proper university.

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

As we hoped, our kids began to learn Italian. One day Isaac sat down to dinner, looked at the plate of pasta we'd prepared, made a face, and said, "Che schifo!" a vulgar expression meaning "Gross!" We were so proud.

Those who can't do, teach, and those who can't teach, critique.

You mean, let our most excellent Congress deal with this situation in the same way it has handled our other pressing national problems, such as global warming, terrorism, education, and our crumbling infrastructure?

This was a big divergence from the way human children learn language, and that itself was interesting.

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Then there was that absurd syntax business again. No language without syntax. Well, what about Latin! These assholes didn't even know Latin! Where did these guys go to school?

Zemurray donated lavishly to Central American causes, schools, and philanthropic ventures; he played a significant role in the founding of Israel; he endowed a female professorship at Harvard, which

We live in a nation of ignoramuses. The average American knows nothing about science. A man asked me once if the stars went away when the sun rose, or if they were still there but you just couldn't see them. He was a stockbroker I had the misfortune of employing, a man who made over one hundred thousand dollars a year! Well, I took my investments away from him, damn quick! And then the market climbed five hundred points.

Wisdom to learn is e'en for old men good.

Old men are always young enough to learn.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

Not to know is bad not to wish to know is worse.

The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

Got on! Got on! It's not a question of getting on. That's the wrong view altogether. The Classics aren't a ladder leading to quick success.