Quotes About Education

We do not go to school to be a success, we go to school to learn to hopefully be a success one day and if not then our plan in life lies elswhere and that is good ......

Education has fundamentally changed my life. It's perhaps the mission of my life. I'm wed to it in a very powerful and personal way. And I chose the pathway that I believe could make me the most significant on changing the outcomes that we see now in North Carolina.

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

And now I'm going to find out how to get a library started.

I don't think we should have a dinosaur that poops kids.

Learning to spot "that stuff "—whether it is racist, or sexist, or classist—is an important skill for children to develop.

Children who have been silenced often enough learn not to talk about race publicly. Their questions don't go away, they just go unasked.

Sometimes the assumptions we make about others come not from what we have been told or what we have seen on television or in books, but rather rom what we have not been told. The distortion of historical information about people of color leads young people (and older people to) to make assumptions that may go unchallenged for a long time.

If young people are exposed to images of African American academic achievement in their early years, they won't have to define school achievement as something for Whites only. They will know that there is a long history of Black intellectual achievement.

Regardless of your subject matter, there are ways to engage students in critical thinking about racism which are relevant to your discipline.

Unfortunately for Black teenagers, those cultural stereotypes do not usually include academic achievement.

She dearly hoped her gender would not be a problem because she did not have the time to educate a man on the fine points of what a woman of the nineteenth century could achieve.

Why do men want unmarried women to be so ignorant?

Although there were only five children enrolled, every educated child was an asset to the race.

Another interesting aspect was my brief mention of Dr. Alexander Augusta. Born free in Virginia in 1825, he was the highest ranking Black officer in the Union Army, and went on to become the first African-American professor of medicine.

Maria W Stewart women of all races can lecture now.

Conservatives say teaching sex education in the public schools will promote promiscuity. With our education system? If we promote promiscuity the same way we promote math or science, they've got nothing to worry about.

For girls of our class, only a convent-school education would do. This meant that until we reached the age of marital consent, we could be certified (of course) as virgins, but also as never having occupied unchaperoned confined space of any kind with a boy of our own age who was not a close relative.

Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.