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Quotes About Education

I love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other people's shoes.
~ Denzel Washington
If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.
~ Edward Tufte
I would love to study guitar or trumpet.
~ Amy Winehouse
I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.
~ Frank Lampard
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
~ William Shakespeare
I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike
~ Ann M. Martin
I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.
~ Don Cornelius
People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.
~ Doris Lessing
I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
~ Ferguson Jenkins
I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
~ Joni Mitchell
Thus, not only is the state supporting one-sided radicalism, it is also supporting indoctrination. We do not teach our children that the world is flat. Neither should we teach them unsupported ideologically-predicated theories about the nature of men and women—or the nature of hierarchy.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
the best way to learn about something is to talk about it
~ Jordan B. Peterson
It takes careful observation, and education, and reflection, and communication with others, just to scratch the surface of your beliefs.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Millennials, often told they have received the finest education available anywhere, have actually suffered a form of serious intellectual and moral neglect.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
I believe that government can, sometimes, be a force for good, as well as the necessary arbiter of a small set of necessary rules. Nonetheless, I do not understand why our society is providing public funding to institutions and educators whose stated, conscious and explicit aim is the demolition of the culture that supports them.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
This kind of theorizing is particularly attractive to people who are smart but lazy. Cynicism serves as an aid, too, as does arrogance. The new adherents will be taught that mastering such a game constitutes education, and will learn to criticize alternative theories, different methods, and increasingly, even the idea of fact itself.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
If a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends. The research literature is quite clear on this.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
One might think that a generation that has heard endlessly, from their more ideological teachers, about the rights, rights, rights that belong to them, would object to being told that they would do better to focus instead on taking responsibility.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
And so a generation has been raised untutored in what was once called, aptly, "practical wisdom," which guided previous generations. Millennials, often told they have received the finest education available anywhere, have actually suffered a form of serious intellectual and moral neglect.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
What saves is the willingness to learn from what you don't know.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
It is better to presume ignorance and invite learning than to assume sufficient knowledge and risk the consequent blindness.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
tedious, ideology-ridden professors.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
In the West at least, millennials are living through a unique historical situation. They are, I believe, the first generation to have been so thoroughly taught two seemingly contradictory ideas about morality, simultaneously—at their schools, colleges and universities, by many in my own generation. This contradiction has left them at times disoriented and uncertain, without guidance and, more tragically, deprived of riches they don't even know exist.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
It is far better to render Beings in your care competent than to protect
~ Jordan B. Peterson