Quotes About Education

The ages thirteen to fifteen are a time of great intellectual development and energy that is largely wasted in the United States. Students this age in other countries work much harder than Americans, thereby putting Americans permanently behind.

Reading builds character and increases knowledge.

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.

Because of my nature, I find 'spiritual' and 'creative' to be synonymous. I am not exclusively a Christian; but for me work is prayer. So in pleading for the nurture of creativity, in life and in education, I plead for the nuture of the spiritual. I cannot separate the two.

None of the boys were studying for the math test we had today, because none of them cared.

Probably because for all the amazing things books can do, they can't make you into a bad person

Probably because for all the amazing things books can do, they can't make you into a bad person.

Every book banned by the school board in this novel is the title of a book that has been challenged or banned in an American library at least once in the last thirty years.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

T. S. Eliot wrote almost a century ago about a phenomenon that he believed to be the product of the nineteenth century: "When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when everyone knows a little about a great many things, it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about or not.

By reading, a man already having some wisdom can gain far more; but it is equally true that reading can make a man already inclined toward foolishness far, far more foolish.

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

Most people have managed to get by without being educated…because, in order to make education more user-friendly, they managed to forget about the changes in people's brains that are supposed to happen.

He couldn't see any point in absorbing information in a formal setting and reproducing it on demand for the sake of gaining a certificate.

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

Fears are educated into us," Dr. Karl Menninger once wrote, "and they can, if we wish, be educated out.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

Great Inititates are characterized less by their cosmic wisdom than by the deep knowledge that they are endless beginners at all times, with an infinity of things to learn

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.