Quotes About Education

We went to a very small high school. It was, like, in a wooded house; it was a weird school. I hung out with a lot of guys in high school, and I did theater with a few of my close girlfriends.

Mum eventually graduated with a City & Guilds certificate that hung proudly on our living room wall throughout my childhood.

There really is a hunger and a demand for something different in higher education.

I was hungry a coupla' times but for the most part I ate every day... I got to go to school for free.

I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.

The modulating principle of "salary according to merit" has not failed to tempt national education itself. Indeed, just as the corporation replaces the factory, perpetual training tends to replace the school, and continuous control to replace the examination. Which is the surest way of delivering the school over to the corporation.

I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they'd be bored as hell by me. It's a lonely way to go through life.

I'm a self-didact. (Not a dirty word, look it up.) I read constantly. I think. But I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they'd be bored as hell by me.

But I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they'd be bored as hell by me. It's a lonely way to go through life.

education could certainly "mould and direct" but could not "alter a child's character.

Some argue the days of furthering or bettering oneself through a liberl arts education are gone, but that's true only if furthering and bettering means making more money...For many life reveals itself more intimately in literature than in ledgers.

L'istruzione, e la ricchezza, posson essere sorgente di bene e di male, a seconda delle intenzioni colle quali s'adoperano.

Some children like how-to-do-it or all-about-everything type books, but I suspect parents like them best because they look so educational. These really should be in a separate category because they don't usually classify and literature but are more nearly manuals of information. Paul Hazard suggests that instead of pouring out so much knowledge on a child's soul that it is crushed, we should plant a seed of an idea that will develop from the inside.

parents who read widely together with their children are going to be those who most influence their children

In this wealthy, technologically advanced, highly educated nation, more and more of our darkest children are dying on the streets--literally. Still, this uncontested reality polarizes adults along racial lines, not as we attempt to discover meaningful solutions to these brutal slaughters but in our racially balkanized expression of beliefs and determinations regarding the cause of these senseless deaths.

Monastic schools located in the countryside provided most of the education in Europe. With the urban boom of the eleventh century and the growing strictness of the monasteries brought about by church reform, cathedrals once again began opening schools (or, in a few cases, expanding existing schools) in the cities.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn.

Challenge isn't going to come from any curriculum, no matter how hard they make it. It's going to come from life.

They don't have regular time at school, you know. They have periods. All of a sudden an alarm goes off and you're supposed to drop what you're doing and rush off to a different room with a different teacher to do something completely different! How can anybody learn like that?

Justice and fairness aren't just part of the social studies curriculum, you know. They're the building blocks of our entire society.

Link, there hasn't been time for me to give you much of a formal Jewish education. But you might remember from Sunday school some of the stories of the Old Testament. God forgives us—and by doing that, God shows us how to forgive each other. Even more important, those of us who've been forgiven spend the rest of our lives trying to be worthy of that forgiveness.

If there is a Mount Everest," I remind him. "We learned about it in school, so it might be total baloney.

My students are very motivated, he finished in a disappointed tone. Kids these days, Dan commiserated.

I've never heard a teacher say something that was so completely, totally honest.