Quotes About Education

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Before I came here, I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture, I am still confused -- but on a higher level.

ejidos." The teaching centers were "foci for ideological fermentation

La sociedad nos prepara para el éxito a través de las escuelas y universidades, con el ejemplo de personas que triunfan en todas las disciplinas; sin embargo, la piedra angular del crecimiento personal es cómo encaramos los fracasos y sinsabores de la vida y qué aprendemos de ellos.

Insisto en que los padres no deben olvidar que son los primeros educadores y que educan más por lo que hacen que por lo que dicen.

Para que una personalidad se desarrolle de manera armónica es necesario alcanzar una buena conjunción de las disposiciones biológicas y de los diversos aprendizajes que tienen lugar desde la infancia hasta la edad adulta, formando un abanico de vivencias

la educación es una tarea tan decisiva. Educar es convertir a alguien en persona; es acompañar con criterio; es predicar con el ejemplo. Educar es seducir por encantamiento y ejemplaridad con la alegría como telón de fondo[14].

La educación de la voluntad es una tarea de artesanía psicológica trazada desde el esfuerzo continuado.

La voluntad es la capacidad para hacer algo valioso y que cuesta sin tener un resultado inmediato. Es la capacidad para aplazar la recompensa haciendo lo que se debe. Educar la voluntad es aprender a renunciar a las satisfacciones inmediatas y a valorar y sopesar las cosas antes de actuar. Se trata de un largo proceso que empieza en la infancia y que tiene unos resultados concretos en la adolescencia. Ni

Horroriza el nivel de ignorancia de este país y, sobre todo, de satisfacción con esa ignorancia. Es un país con mucha inquina y mucha mala leche, de escasa —por no decir nula— categoría moral. Y a mí me parece que si eres mínimamente culto, estás perdido.

to German culture, and the path of this cultural assimilation was Bildung, the ideal of education and self-improvement set by Humboldt in the age of Aufklärung.55 In the United States, German Jews had discovered a multi-ethnic and multicultural nation in which being American meant adhering to the Constitution.

The problem is that I know the textbook answers to any question you care to ask.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Only the educated are free.

To accuse others for one's own misfortune is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

between 1995 and 2000 more than 12,000 new works on the Third Reich were published,

That better-educated people were no more immune to National Socialism than the less educated calls into question the widely held belief that tolerance and enlightenment are more likely to be found among people who have a higher education. It is the content of socialization that counts, not the degree of sophistication.

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams.