Quotes About Education

Castle Rock Middle School was a frowning pile of red brick standing between the Post Office and the Library, a holdover from the time when the town elders didn't feel entirely comfortable with a school unless it looked like a reformatory.

Learning itself is a present, you know.

Learning itself is a present, the best one anyone can give or get.

I do not think that there is any doubt that educated people possess a far wider range of humour than the uneducated class. Some people, of course, get overeducated and become hopelessly academic. The word highbrow has been invented exactly to fit the case. The sense of humour in the highbrow has become atrophied, or, to vary the metaphor, it is submerged or buried under the accumulated strata of his education, on the top soil of which flourishes a fine growth of conceit.

He'd actually had parents contact him to ask if there was anything their kids in grammar school should be doing to get ready for applying to college. Looking for sane parents was what he wanted to tell them.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

The person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read.

If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.

If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. Thoreau taught, "How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

If you don't let a teacher know at what level you are—by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance—you will not learn or grow. You cannot pretend for long, for you will eventually be found out. Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. Thoreau taught, "How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

If you don't let a teacher know at what level you are—by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance—you will not learn or grow.

Trust—or the lack of it—is at the root of success or failure in relationships and in the bottom-line results of business, industry, education, and government.

With the dizzying rate of change in technology and increasing competition driven by the globalization of markets and technology, we must not only be educated, we must constantly re-educate and reinvent ourselves. We must develop our minds and continually sharpen and invest in the development of our competencies to avoid becoming obsolete.

If you don't let a teacher know at what level you are—by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance—you will not learn or grow. You cannot pretend for long, for you will eventually be found out. Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

a goal of a book a month, then a book every two weeks, then a book a week. "The person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read.

Quality literature, such as the Great Books, the Harvard Classics

The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior.

pages. He did not seek credit for the principles; he sought to teach the principles, to make them accessible.

Communication is the most important skill in life. We spend most of our waking hours communicating. But consider this: You've spent years learning how to read and write, years learning how to speak. But what about listening? What training or education have you had that enables you to listen so that you really, deeply understand another human being from that individual's own frame of reference?

more you know the more you know you don't know.

writing truly imprints the brain