Quotes About Education

Each child, with the lightheartedness of a cuckoo, was passed on to the care of a wet nurse, a nanny and later a governess. At

No medical student relishes the idea of having to learn a subject over and over again.

True empowerment of students, I came to realize, necessarily means a certain disempowerment of teachers.

Most people, Wright observes, prefer not to think of class as a means of control or exclusion, but as a collection of things that can be acquired, like property and education. Your class, in this approach, is determined by how much you have of three kinds of capital—economic capital, cultural capital, and social capital. Or, what you own, what you know, and who you know.

Unvaccinated children, a 2004 analysis of CDC data reveals, are more likely to be white, to have an older married mother with a college education, and to live in a household with an income of $75,000 or more—like my child.

A Union soldier serving in the South said of the freedman, "Human or not, there he is in our midst, millions strong; and if he is not educated mentally and morally, he will make us trouble." That, in short, is the theory on which our public school system is based. By 1880 it had already developed its fundamental characteristics—it was, and is, as Michael Katz writes, "universal, tax-supported, free, compulsory, bureaucratic, racist, and class-biased.

in this approach, is determined by how much you have of three kinds of capital—economic capital, cultural capital, and social capital. Or, what you own, what you know, and who you know.

And as in any feudal system, the people on whom the entire system depended were robbed, as completely as possible, of their power. The students were, for the most part, unable to hold inept teachers accountable, to protest the wasting of their own time, to influence the grounds on which they would be evaluated, to demand anything, really, of substance from the institution.

Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak.

Get the Jews out of banking and they cannot control the economic life of the community. Get the Jews out of education and they cannot pervert the minds of the young to their subversive doctrines. Get the Jews out of government and they cannot betray the nation.

From the Byzantines, Pound derived his non-violent formula for controlling the Jews. "The answer to the Jewish problem is simple," he said. "Keep them out of banking, out of education, out of government.

You will be educated, which means that you will be interested where others are bored, that you will notice unities where others experience randomness, and that you will intend meanings where others are just spouting words. For exactly that is supposed to be the result of becoming literate: The world becomes a thick texture of significance that you know how to "access."--Eva Brann

It is a maxim of learning: To learn anything requires letting it be, but not letting it alone. Is there a way, a mode of engagement, of not letting things or people alone that yet lets them be—not tolerably, not as bearable, but really be?

I'm afraid I'm not very clever." Sir Aubrey looked shocked. "Good heavens, boy, I should hope not! The Taverners have never been bookish. Except your poor father, and look what happened to him.

When we learn something new and try to teach it to someone else, our success in both receiving and transmitting the information depends on what it is about.

In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.

I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.

Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.

A few months ago I finished speaking, and looked down at a class of schoolchildren. A Somali girl with dark eyes hesitantly put her hand up and asked, 'Do you think it will happen again?' I can't answer that, but maybe you can. Will it? I hope not.

Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

The trouble with child training is that parents teach their children not how to behave, but how not to behave.

Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.

one of the most important things to me is that my children and grandchildren are curious. Because, if you're not curious, you're not smart.