Quotes About Education

My premise in First Bite is that the question of how we learn to eat - both individually and collectively - is the key to how food, for so many people, has gone so badly wrong. The greatest public health problem of modern times is how to persuade people to make better food choices.

Feeding is learning.

We think we are being clever when we smuggle some beets into a cake. Ha! Tricked you into eating root vegetables! But since our children are not conscious that they are consuming beets, the main upshot is to entrench their liking for cake. A far cleverer thing would be to help children learn to become adults who choose vegetables consciously, of their own accord.

Once we accept that eating is a learned behavior, we see that the challenge is not to grasp information but to learn new habits.

Most of our approaches to feeding children are too short term. We worry about the next five minutes when we should worry about the next five years.

Girls eat better when food stops being something forbidden.

Feeding children is an immense responsibility.

After all, as omnivores, we were not born knowing what to eat. We all had to learn it, every one of us, as children sitting expectantly, waiting to be fed.

Every day, children are exposed to messages - whether on giant hoardings and TV ads or from looking in friends' lunchboxes - telling them that they should like the very foods that will do them the most harm.

We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

A people uneducated is like an iron mountain whose ore is unwrought.

Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.

The Church is not a gallery for the better exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

He that knew all that ever Learning writ, Knew only this -- that he knew nothing yet.

You're not God. Nothing is your fault, except, perhaps, poor teaching.

St. Peter:  ââ'¬Å"Who is knocking at my gate?" Voice: "It is I." St. Peter: "Go away, we don't need any more school teachers here!

The books we are required to teach frequently have nothing to do with anything except the fact that they have always been taught, or that there is an oversupply of them, or that some committee or other was asked to come up with some titles.

Trouble is," Paul smiled his most charming smile, "a teacher has to be so many things at the same time: actor, policeman, scholar, jailer, parent, inspector, referee, friend, psychiatrist, accountant, judge and jury, guide and mentor, wielder of minds, keeper of records, and grand master of the Delaney Book.

But I am busiest outside of my teaching classes. Do you know any other business or profession where highly-skilled specialists are required to tally numbers, alphabetize cards, put notices into mailboxes, and patrol the lunchroom?

Dear Bea—Can't make it today—sorry. Parent arriving lunch per. to ask why son got 35% on Midterm. Must answer him. How? Sylvia Dear Syl—Don't try. There's no communication; no one really listens. Every man is an island. Give him a container of coffee instead. Bea

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEETING AT 3 PM IN SCIENCE LAB 409 ON: THE TOTAL EXPERIENCE OF THE PUPIL: SHOULD MACBETH BE TAUGHT IN THE 6th TERM INSTEAD OF THE 5th?