Quotes About Education

If you really want to improve the quality of your writing, or if you want to thunder about sins in the writing of others, the principles you should worry about the most are not the ones that govern fused participles and possessive antecedents but the ones that govern critical thinking and factual diligence.

Could the world be getting not just more literate and knowledgeable but actually smarter?

Children acquire spoken language instinctively but written language only by the sweat of their brow, because spoken language has been a feature of human life for tens or hundreds of millennia whereas written language is a recent and slow-spreading invention.

The first countries that made the Great Escape from universal poverty in the 19th century, and the countries that have grown the fastest ever since, are the countries that educated their children most intensely.5

Studies that assess education at Time 1 and wealth at Time 2, holding all else constant, suggest that investing in education really does make countries richer. At least it does if the education is secular and rationalistic.

the Blank Slate had, and has, a dark side. The vacuum that it posited in human nature was eagerly filled by totalitarian regimes, and it did nothing to prevent their genocides. It perverts education, childrearing, and the arts into forms of social engineering. It torments mothers who work outside the home and parents whose children did not turn out as they would have liked. It threatens to outlaw biomedical research that could alleviate human suffering.

Whatever the pedagogical merits may be of feeding children misinformation, it is inappropriate for adults. There is nothing wrong with beginning a sentence with a coordinator.

Better still, improvements build on one another. A richer world can better afford to protect the environment, police its gangs, strengthen its social safety nets, and teach and heal its citizens. A better-educated and connected world cares more about the environment, indulges fewer autocrats, and starts fewer wars.

The schooling, together with health and wealth, are literally making us smarter—by thirty IQ points, or two standard deviations above our ancestors.

I also get a perverse pleasure from correcting students who refer to an important piece of data or write that this data is important. (Data is the plural of datum, I tell them, so one ought to say, The datum is important; The data are important.) Yet

Until they do, these older and less-educated people (mainly white men)

We should not be surprised that what people take away from science education is a syncretic mishmash, where gravity and electromagnetism coexist with psi, qi, karma, and crystal healing.

El sometimiento de todas nuestras creencias a los juicios de la razón y las evidencias es una destreza antinatural, como la alfabetización y el cálculo, y ha de ser inculcada y cultivada.

Una sociedad sin erudición histórica es como una persona sin memoria: engañada, confundida y fácilmente explotada.

No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.

I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

Unity of minds, natural love and co-operation, are the qualities we have to develop today. Education is not for securing university degrees.

Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own

He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.