Quotes About Education

Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.

We used to think that schools built brains. Now we know that it is play that builds the brains that school can then use.

The time we as parents and educators spend trying to teach our children social tolerance, acceptance, and etiquette would be much better invested in cultivating a connection with them. Children nurtured in traditional hierarchies of attachment are not nearly as susceptible to the spontaneous forces of tribalization. The social values we wish to inculcate can be transmitted only across existing lines of attachment.

In a republic that depended on the intelligence and virtue of all citizens, the diffusion of knowledge had to be widespread. Indeed, said Noah Webster, education had to be "the most important business in civil society.

Between 1798 and 1808 American colleges were racked by mounting incidents of student defiance and outright rebellion—on a scale never seen before or since in American history.

I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but if at a neighborhood level violence is necessary, I'm all for violence. It's the only thing Americans understand.

After all, as educated men, we should realize that myths always stand for other things. They are toys for children teething. The man knows that the toy horse is not a true horse but merely suggests the idea of a horse to a baby's mind. When we pray before the statue of Zeus, though the statue contains him as everything must, the statue is not the god himself but only a suggestion of him. Surely, as fellow priests, we can be frank with one another about these grown-up matters.

Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.

If a slave was caught learning how to read and write, he could have his fingers or toes cut off!)

Feed your head means read a book.

One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand. Even if we have the happy chance to fall in love, it is because we have been conditioned by what we have read, and if I had never known love at all, perhaps it was because my father's library had not contained the right books.

There's nothing so heavy as books, sir--unless it's bricks.

The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching.

She had a lot to learn, in the way of books and music and how to dress and talk, but she would never have to learn humanity.

en Orient, on ne gronde pas les enfants.

There are small bits of useless knowledge which stick to one's brain like barnacles to

L'insegnamento è l'antagonismo tra insegnante e studente. E' quello che viene prodotto dalla perseveranza dell'uno e la resistenza dell'altro. E' una lunga e dura lotta contro una resistenza naturale

Ours is an overpopulated, under educated, shithole in the throes of mass extinctions - it's a wonderful world.

If you have to be hit over the head to learn something about yourself, you'll be someone who thinks that people only learn if you hit them over the head.

His training had consisted of learning a little bit about everything from people who knew everything about something.

You can't change what a person knows, even if it is wrong," the nurse had said.

teaching is not for a teacher simply to persuade students of his or her own perspective. Rather, the goal is to broaden students' minds by helping them empathetically understand a variety of perspectives while training them to think critically for themselves.

The psychedelics are a powerful educational tool. They are the surest way to learn the arbitrariness of our ordinary perception. Many of us have had to use them to find out how little we knew.

Maybe education is wasted on the young.