Quotes About Education

the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness. It balances short term with long term. It balances going for the grade and paying the price to get an education. It balances the desire to have a room clean and the building of a relationship in which the child is internally committed to do it—cheerfully, willingly, without external supervision.

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

Or a person endlessly going to school, never producing, living on other people's golden eggs—the eternal student syndrome.

They are graded in relation to other people. And grades are carriers of social value; they open doors of opportunity or they close them. Competition, not cooperation, lies at the core of the educational process. Cooperation, in fact, is usually associated with cheating.

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 we work upon marble, it will perish. If we work upon brass, time will efface it. But if we work upon immortal minds, and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving upon tablets which no time will efface but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.

I am not suggesting that elements of the Personality Ethic—personality growth, communication skill training, and education in the field of influence strategies and positive thinking—are not beneficial, in fact sometimes essential for success. I believe they are. But these are secondary, not primary traits.

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?" I

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

So ignorance increases ignorance, and knowledge

Unearned knowledge is perilous. Only by the seeking and gaining of it may its uses be understood, its true worth measured.

BUT IF YOU'RE SMART, YOU'LL LEARN YOUR LESSON WELL.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. Enrico Fermi

Forget boys and read a good book. Or study. When you're twenty-five and ranking in the big bucks, men will be falling all over you're a successful professional woman.

that most precious of human commodities—knowledge.

Knowledge should never be feared.

There is no one else like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance. – Buddha

The man who knows not, but knows not that he knows not, is a fool . Shun him. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a student . Teach him. - Persian proverb

people fear what they do not understand.

Knowledge is far more powerful than any weapon

Groucho Marx once said he found television very educational. "Every time someone turns it on," he said, "I go in the other room to read a book.

the way. The knowledge of how to swim or ride a bicycle cannot be passed along, or taught in a seminar-it must be

The extensive work done by Dr. Martin Seligman on learned optimism spanned 20 years, and he studied more than half a million children and adults. He found and scientifically confirmed two things: 1) Optimism makes you more effective at whatever you do, and 2) optimism can be learned.