Quotes About Education

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

So you could write what you know. The problem, of course, is that some people don't know shit.

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

Scholarship, far from leading inexorably to a profession, may in fact preclude it. For it does not permit you to abandon it.

School was preparation for the future... and he had no intention to go into the future unprepared.

Literature's always a good card to play for Honours. It makes people think that Cabinet ministers are educated.

The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide.

It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by an intelligent delight in scenery, are elements of the first importance in the education of the young.

When you work for someone, you never realise how much you are learning. It is only when you leave and you reflect back on life.

Confederate monuments belong in museums where we can study and reflect on that terrible history, not in places of honor across our state.

When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them.

Like millions of parents, I chose to send my children to a religious school that shares my belief system, which is central to my life. I objected to changes in the school that, in my opinion, did not reflect that belief system.

I think, for me, the biggest issue is poverty in general, poverty in this time of plenty. It's reflected in homelessness. It's reflected in educational gaps. It's reflected in racial disparities.

You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.

Top-quality public education, universal health care, and free child care are among the many benefits provided by the state in Norway, reflecting its long-standing egalitarian culture and spirit of communitarianism - a spirit that extends to its prisons.

My high school did not offer courses in philosophy, so the books that initially stimulated philosophical reflection in me were novels by Charles Dickens, Henry James, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.

To finally reform higher education, we should start by asking fundamental questions, such as, Why does it take four years to get a degree?

There is an analogy between conservation and education reform. The coalition around education reform is the biggest bipartisan thing going in this state right now. We need to recapture the big bipartisan spirit for conservation.

In my mind, there is no reason public school reform should be a partisan issue.

School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.