Quotes About Education

In the early Taish? era (1912–1926), when I started school, the word "teacher" was synonymous with "scary person." The fact that at such a time I encountered such free and innovative education with such creative impulse behind it—that I encountered a teacher like Mr. Tachikawa at such a time—I cherish among the rarest of blessings.

He was a wonderful teacher. A really good teacher doesn't seem like a teacher at all; that's exactly how this man was.

By comparison with them, among today's schoolteachers there are too many plain "salary-man" drudges. Or perhaps even more than salary men, there are too many bureaucrat types among those who become teachers. The kind of education these people dispense isn't worth a damn. There's absolutely nothing of interest in it. So it's no wonder that students today prefer to spend their time reading comic books.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'.

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

I think the world is run by C students.

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

Education, medical treatment, and work are the natural rights of every citizen in the world.

I get sad every time I hear a person say "I don't read." It's like saying "I don't learn," or "I don't laugh," or "I don't live.

Je ne crois pas qu'avoir étudié soit une si grande chose si l'on n'étudie plus. »

Les murs s'effritent : l'actualité force les portes du temple, la liberté des Modernes s'invite dans les cours de récréation et des salles de classe, le présent ne s'oublie jamais, les envies de la vie envahissant l'institution, la société, avec ses codes, ses modes, ses marques, ses emblèmes, ses objets fétiches, ses signes d'appartenance et de reconnaissance, déferle à l'école. (p49)

You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

What I've learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means "to pull from." Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

When programmers speak of "computer literacy," they are drawing red lines around ethnic groups, too, yet few have pointed this out.