Quotes About Education

I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years.

My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.

Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

First grade was - I spoke only Spanish, and second grade - probably a bit more English. And by the time I hit third grade, I was learning, of course, much, much more English.

I believe that our teachers need more freedom to be creative in the classroom in order to maximize the time students spend learning, not the time they spend taking tests.

Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time. Only dead people cease learning, and I am not certified dead yet. So I am still learning.

I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.

I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.

I often get asked why I decided to spend time highlighting the mental health of children.

By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them to it.

Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

Open the doors to all. Let the children of the rich and the poor take their seats together and know of no distinction save that of industry, good conduct, and intellect.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists.

The pebbles of knowledge must be bonded together by the cement of experience.

It outlines the fact that we are twins, we grew up together, but then we went to different colleges and went in separate directions.

A gentleman makes friends by learning together with others, and he looks to friends to help him cultivate benevolence.

Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.

The power of music and the plasticity of the brain go together very strikingly, especially in young people.

Thus the radii of all education run together into one center which is called personality.