Quotes About Education

For educators, not providing a global context for your students in today's world is almost criminal.

I learned by trial and error. Are there other ways to learn? If so, someone should have said something. My companions in that trial and error were songs, for the most part.

My success or failure in school was dependent on my ability to follow a curriculum that felt as if it had very little to do with me as a human being.

the more thoroughly I liberate myself from prevailing cultural assumptions—around education, wealth, ambition, and success, to name but a few—the more choice I actually have. The more freedom I have.

the business of being a child in this country is rapidly disappearing into an abyss that consists not only of programs and tests but also of extracurricular activities.

I dropped out of high school to pursue a self-designed study program in excessively loud heavy metal music and extreme partying. - From his blog

If there is value in the standardized, performance-based curriculums utilized by the vast majority of schools, that value is realized primarily by the institutions themselves and by the economic and social structures that are fed by standardized learning.

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

And though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek.

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

Before becoming headmaster of Eton, Claude Elliott had taught history at Cambridge University, despite an ingrained distrust of academics and an aversion to intellectual conversation. But the long university vacations gave him plenty of time for mountain climbing.

I wouldn't have minded school if they taught you important things like how to have good sex and what brand of wine is the best… But for some reason they were hell bent on teaching me algebra

By passing your GCSEs you prove that you're not an idiot… But by passing your A levels you prove that you're smart

No one in the house had seen books for generations. We didn't even know what they were. We'd only heard that they were poisonous and that they ruined the mind, and that no one was to have anything to do with them.".

Learning what you know is something you have to do every day and every moment.

my mother was, though intelligent, not particularly intellectual.

I had many teachers whom I remember gratefully. In

we both strongly believed all children deserved a quality education.

Being on a board of education is thankless but it's important service.

and parents would volunteer their time in lieu of paying the small tuition.

but Anna could see the benefits of her efforts much more concretely and immediately in the progress and joy of her students.

graduating two years ahead of me.

My work with him was the basis of my senior thesis,

did not at first appreciate how academically disadvantaged I was—especially compared with classmates from elite prep schools like Andover and Exeter and top-flight public schools like Bronx Science.