Quotes About Education

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.

A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class — based on test scores — by over 10 percent in a single year. … That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.

Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

I spend a lot of time reading.

Power comes not from knowledge kept but from knowledge shared.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Most, perhaps all, of us were from middle-class families and trying to pay our way through college. Waitresses could clear from $1,000 to $1,500 for the summer, bellhops $800 or so. Now this may not seem like a lot, but at the University of Illinois in the sixties my tuition for a semester was—parents, do not commit hara-kiri—$135.

Self-knowledge can, and ought, to apply not only to the soul, but also to the body; the man without insight into the fabric of his body has no knowledge of himself. —JOHN MOIR, student of anatomy, notes from opening lecture, Anatomical Education in a Scottish University, 1620

Anathomia by Mondino dei Liucci, c. 1493

What are you reading for?

the problem with this country. Ah, one of them. There are many. But this whole issue of sexuality and pornography, which I don't understand what pornography is, I really don't. To me pornography is, you know, spending all your money and not educating the people in America, but spending it instead on weapons. That's pornographic to me.

Delayed gratification is important first and foremost in training children.

Our culture has castrated the role of the teacher. It is possible to attend college, get a business degree, and never have received any teaching by someone who ever owned a business. We value concepts and ideas above experience with results. I

Kids. They're not easy. But there has to be some penalty for sex.

I'll show you Obama's birth certificate when you show me Sarah Palin's high school diploma.

Kids. They're not easy. But there has to be some penalty for sex.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

There's a wonderful book, Religious Literacy by Stephen Prothero, which cites a poll that half of Americans can't name Genesis as the first book of the Bible. This is part of the dumbing down of our culture. One of those books that 50 percent of Americans apparently aren't reading is the Bible, or they would know that Genesis is the first book of the Bible. It's sort of like, "I don't know what Genesis is, but I believe it.

The Best Way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream.

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

This is a book about everything. It is about everything I know and about everything I think you should know, too.

As an engineer trained in the U.S., I look at the assault on evolution—which is actually an assault on science overall—as much more than an intellectual issue; for me, it's personal. I feel strongly that we need the young people of today to become the scientists and the engineers of tomorrow so that my native United States continues to be a world leader in discovery and innovation. If we suppress science in this country, we are headed for trouble.