Quotes About Education

There are guys I'd love to learn from, but they wouldn't be a good fit for me, so I read their blogs and books.

How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

I love Arkansas but I think Arkansas has its share of unlit minds.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

Money should never stand in the way of learning.

When workers are asked, in interviews, what they think of the students, they invariably refer to them as our future bosses, and say they hope this experience will make better chefs of them than their fathers have been. French Revolution all for nothing?

Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's creepy as hell.

You went to school, Lee said. I mean, at some point. And it didn't suit you very well. They wanted to teach you things you didn't care about. Dates and math and trivia about dead presidents. They didn't teach persuasion. Your ability to persuade is the single most important determinant of your quality of life, and they didn't cover that at all. Well, we do. And we're looking for students with natural aptitude.

Come in, Noaks," said the Duke. "You have been to a lecture?" "Aristotle's Politics," nodded Noaks.

But don't worry. America can turn out millions just like me, and Oxford can have as many of them as she can hold. On the other hand, how many of YOU can be turned out, as per sample, in England?

She said she had selected me because she knew me to be honest, sober, and capable, and no stranger to Oxford.

But Oxford never pretended to be strong in mathematics.

That's a Z," I corrected, making sure to pronounce it "zee." "I'm afraid that's a zed," she counter-corrected

This was a time when university profs were getting hit from both sides; the right with their creationist agenda, and the left who'd suddenly realized the connection between science and war.

The only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton.

People with the same education as my own, speaking the same words that I do, loving the same books, the same music, the same paintings, are by no means immune from the danger of turning into monsters and doing things we would not have thought possible among the people of our own day, apart from a few pathological exceptions. If they are not immune, Why should I be so confident of my own immunity?

THE CURSE OF KNOWLEDGE: When we have expertise or knowledge in a given area, we have difficulty understanding what the problem would look like to those who lack such expertise or knowledge.4 Thus, teachers often lack empathy for students who lack their knowledge.

How would that look on a résumé? Joseph Son of Jacob Graduate with honors from the University of Hard Knocks Director of Global Effort to Save Humanity Succeeded

Here is a scene that happens in Brazil thousands of times each day: It's early morning. Time for young Marcos to leave for school. As he gathers his books and heads for the door, he stops by his father's chair. He looks into his father's face. "Benção, Pai?" (Blessing, Father?) Marcos asks. The father raises his hand. "Deus te abençoe, meu filho" (God bless you, my son), he says.

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.