Quotes About Education

Eventually, in the guise of preventing "hate speech," all manner of communications will be forbidden. Restrictions will undoubtedly find their way into politics, current affairs, jurisprudence, but they could plausibly be expected to stretch into the realms of philosophy, religion, education, economics, civics, and other subjects that build our fundamental character.

we've been indoctrinated to believe that the higher the IQ, the more likely one is to succeed in life.

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them [the people] not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.

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Become educated, encourage others to follow, and together, despite our divergent political leanings, we can stand united as human beings who recognize and respect each other's rights to enjoy life and liberty, to acquire and possess property, and to pursue and obtain happiness and safety.

Statt Klopapier und Nudeln sollten die Menschen lieber Kultur hamstern. Ich hoffe sehr, dass unsere Supermärkte für geistige Nahrung bald wieder öffnen!

And math to me is just a training course to be a citizen, how to think in the world.

I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.

Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

The greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe.

No wonder men didn't take women seriously; they had classes in walking while men learned ancient languages.

In any book, it is impossible to avoid some mistakes, some confusion, some incorrectness of language, and some misuse of notation. If you find any such things in the present book, then correct them or improve them for yourself, or write your own book.

The biggest problem in the world is not inequality. It's ignorance. It's the lack of access to education and information.

For every rod of wet bamboo upon the student's back, the teacher deserves two.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil—a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect, Mr. Darcy, is to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.

It is difficult for us to realise that in the ancient Irish Schools of Poets the students were trained in not less than three hundred and fifty different kinds of metre.

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game being advertised as being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it's not because it's too hard. It's because it's--boring

Generally in life, knowledge is acquired to be used. But school learning more often fits Freire 's apt metaphor: knowledge is treated like money, to be put away in a bank for the future.

In a classical joke a child stays behind after school to ask a personal question. "Teacher, what did I learn today? " The surprised teacher asks, "Why do you ask that?" and the child replies, "Daddy always asks me and I never know what to say".

Nothing bothers me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization. I know. I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.