Quotes About Education

If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?

Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them.

If we don't see to it that our children turn out better than we did, what will become of the world?

We tend to think knowledge is information, facts, bits of data, "content," true statements—true statements justified by other true statements. And while this isn't exactly false, we tend to have a vision of knowledge as being only this. We conclude that gaining knowledge is collecting information—and we're done—educated, trained, expert, certain.

They memorize everything and learn... nothing.

I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.

There is no surer sign of a society in decline than one that builds prisons faster than schools, as happens in many American states. In

Learning is the engine of practice, and practice is the history of that learning.

[To Ptolemy I:] There is no royal road to geometry.

There is no Royal Road to Geometry.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or be read to.

Pourquoi ne pas profiter des contrepoisons de la civilisation, les bons livres.

Finance as taught in universities is generally divided into three areas: (1) financial management, (2) capital markets, and (3) investments.

Through disparaging interactions with teachers, I realized that I did not do things at home that had value in the school culture. I had no summer vacations; we worked the hardest and longest in the summer. I did not go visit Grandma; she lived with us. I never visited the library; we lived ten miles from the nearest library, and the only vehicle we had was shared for purposes of making a living.

For we're newcomers at this, with a lot to learn, and not too long to learn it.

Drinking from the beautiful chalice of knowledge is better than adorning oneself with gold and rare gems.

Teaching resurrects dead words so they live again.

People who don't read are brutes.

Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Where are we as a modern civilization if our educational institutions conspire to train only a fraction of our capacities? and if this is all they can really do, then why not acknowledge that fact openly and give legitimacy to the other alternative forms of education that do cultivate those neglected dimensions of personality, instead of pretending that anything lying outside the standards set by the Wester analytic tradition is either inferior, anti-intellectual, or diabolic? (p. 293-294)

In a culture that prizes the can-do, self-starter attitude, to be a pessimist is simply to be a complainer – if you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem. To live in such a culture is to constantly live in the shadow of an obligatory optimism, a novel type of coercion that is pathologized early on in child education in the assessment: "Does not like to play with others.