Quotes About Education

Teaching memoir is teaching vulnerability is teaching voice is teaching self.

I became a teacher again, a teacher who finally understood that there's only so much you can teach. The excellence lives in the students themselves. The excellence is theirs alone to give.

Teaching is the parenthetical hold, the instant of discovery, left to the instant.

make it everyone's business to participate actively in the money talk with your kid.

Weapons of war belong on the battlefield, not in our schools.

Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?

My contention is that for education to proceed children must have learned to fear something before they come to school. If it is not the once crippling fear of damnation and the woodshed, then in our more enlightened days it is at least the fear of losing parental love (or later, by proxy, the teacher's) and eventually the fear of losing self-respect.

A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering his child's questions; but an adult who thinks these tales are only a bunch of lies had better not try telling them; he won't be able to relate them in a way which would enrich the child's life.

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.

While the morality taught by home, church, and community (up to roughly the start of World War II) gave direct support to the school in its efforts to teach the young in traditional ways, this is no longer so in all cases. On the contrary, the morality now taught to many children before they come to school, and while there, is often largely at variance with the school's educational efforts.

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.

Somehow men were supposed to have gained enough sexual expertise to teach women about sex. But having to project a masculine image at all times kept them from learning. If you already know all the answers, you can't ask questions.

Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let's face it, frivolous—especially the visual arts, with their connotation of "the starving artist" and the mistaken concept of necessary talent

I will even go out on a limb and say that we mistakenly may have been putting all our educational eggs into one basket only, while shortchanging other truly valuable capabilities of the human brain, namely perception, intuition, imagination, and creativity. Perhaps Albert Einstein put it best: "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

That is like deciding that you shouldn't take a Spanish class because you don't already speak the language.

Today we are not only testing and grading our children into the ground, but we are not teaching them how to see and understand the deep meaning of what they learn, or to perceive the connectedness of information about the world. It is indeed time to try something different.

The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. But I think that education, and only education, has saved, and can continue to save, American women from the greater dangers of the feminine mystique.

mealworms I enjoy.

lower, until school

By the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents.

If you cannot increase reflective power in people, you might as well not teach, because reflection is the only thing that in the long run changes anybody

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

Change the Personality of the Education System not the Personality of the Child.