Quotes About Education

We always wanted to be a big infra player in India - in sectors such as energy, healthcare, education, locomotives, etc.

I have been applied to by several gentlemen to instruct their sons on very advantageous terms to myself, and a printer and bookseller here, a man of reputation and property, Robert Aitkin, has lately attempted a magazine, but having little or no turn that way himself, he has applied to me for assistance. He had not above six hundred subscribers when I first assisted him. We have now upwards of fifteen hundred, and daily increasing.

They lived in a Wikipedia world, where knowledge was no longer required and only the ability to access it mattered.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

Several decades of research have shown that learning retention depends less on the person or the topics involved than on the delivery system. What is striking is that our traditional educational system commonly uses the two least effective methods available: lecturing and reading, through which, respectively, only 5 and 10 percent of what is taught is retained. At the other end of the spectrum, an impressive 90 percent retention rate applies to whatever one teaches others!

For the most part, our educational systems remain rooted in the outdated and fractured Prussian model, which teaches people to take orders rather than think for themselves. Paired with the technological advances in communications, we are left swimming in an ever-engulfing sea of facts, unable to find meaning, never mind wisdom.

many of these excellent young people could not, as a general rule, either read or write, as these activities are understood in our best universities.

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.

I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.

For the Fabers, isolating Leslie in a program for the retarded helped protect her, but only for the six hours of the school day. The rest of the time, they could only hope their child had enough judgment to stay out of trouble. No matter what precautions they took, parents could never be sure.

Although she felt bad about being placed in a program limited to retarded students, the program was more suited to her social skills and sheltered her from the uncaring acts of unkind high school kids.

One teacher, Susan Atkins evoked the experience of many of her colleagues when she said, "It's not just one classroom. It's every class. There's a core and you never know what they're going to throw at you, and the other kids watch, wondering if the 'core' is going to come after them.

The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.

There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.

Vägivallatsejad on tavaliselt inimesed, kellele pole õpetatud teistsuguseid mooduseid end arusaadavaks teha.

we have to be more than teachers, we have to look after them, believe in them if we don't help them, who will

her mission has begun – to make history fun and relevant because we need to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past and to deepen our understanding of who we are as the human race, don't we, class?

furthermore, after decades of religiously marking homework five nights a week, she now loathed doing it with a venom piles of crap piled up on her study desk produced by mostly semi-literates who made her life hell in the classroom mixed ability classrooms? to think she once approved, it didn't raise standards, it lowered them on this she

The more you learn, the more you know that you're not so hot.

You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

If children of 5 are not taught to obey orders, sit still for 7 hours a day, respect their teacher, and raise their hands when they have to go to the bathroom, how will they learn (after 17 more years of education) to become the respectful clerks, technicians and soldiers who keep our society free, our economy strong, and such inspiring men as Richard Nixon and Deane Davis in political office.

In the richest country in the history of the world, every student who has the desire and the ability should be able to go to college.

A college degree today is the equivalent of a high school degree 50 years ago. We need tuition-free public colleges.