Quotes About Education

As Eisenstein affirmed, the impact of books to alter the master-apprentice traditional relationship was quite clear, as people could "instruct themselves primarily from books with a minimum of outside help" and "cut the bonds of subordination which kept pupils and apprentices under the tutelage of a given master.

In you don't continually invest in your education, you risk losing your competitive edge.

I've always found it's easier to be ignorant.

People become librarians because they know too much. Their knowledge extends beyond mere categories. They cannot be confined to disciplines. They bring order to chaos. They bring wisdom and culture to the masses. Librarians rule. And they will kick the crap out of anyone who says otherwise.

In a nation without an adequate or affordable childcare system, no universal healthcare, expensive to prohibitive costs for higher education and a minimum wage that is not a living wage, there are no registries for the officials and employers who routinely implement policies that actively damage all people, including or even particularly children.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

Echte, berufene, geborene Lehrer sind fast so selten wie Helden und Heilige.

Equality doesn't exist in nature and therefore can be established only by force. He who wants geographic equality has to dynamite mountains and fill up the valleys. To get a hedge of even height one has to apply pruning shears. To achieve equal scholastic levels in a school one would have to pressure certain students into extra hard work while holding back others.

In Catholic countries we saw (and sometimes still see) a large number of illiterates side by side with an intellectual élite of high standards. The Protestant goal of education is usually one of good averages- the optimum for a democracy. In democracies there will always be resentment and contempt for the "highbrow" and the illiterate, the intellectual and the "peasant.

The only real measure of the effectiveness of my teaching is what happens in the mind of the person learning.

The ability to learn quickly is the most important skill to have.

Knowledge can be dangerous

That's useful to know.

One of the most important skills a mentor must teach an apprentice is how to fight.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

What was up with class today? It was watered-down porn. He practically had you and Patch on top of your lab table, horizontal, minus your clothes, doing the Big Deed.

For me, far more important than whether teachers have calm voices is how authentic they are—how much of their true selves they allow into their teaching.

It is possible to educate children in the pleasures of food; and that doing so will set the children up for a lifetime of healthy eating. Feeding is learning.

When children are exposed through 'sensory education' to a wider range of flavours they start to love complexity and be bored by simplicity.

One of the reasons that we do not usually think of our tastes as learned is that most of the learning tends to happen in the very early years of life; and then it stops.

You are unlikely to eat something if you don't know what it is.

But we haven't paid anything like enough attention to another consequence of being omnivores, which is that eating is not something we are born instinctively knowing how to do, like breathing. It is something we learn.