Quotes About Education

A person must make the effort to learn, and growing is the inevitable reward of learning.

I've learned, I still have a lot to learn

Within three months of teaching, I had an enormous revelation; I realized I was not a writer who teaches, but a teacher who writes.

When you learn, teach

WHEN YOU LEARN, TEACH; WHEN YOU GET, GIVE

Bailey] had told me once that all knowledge was spendable currency, depending on the market.

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education and, even more amazing, no superiority complex since he had succeeded despite that lack. He would say often, I been to school three years in my life. In Slaten, Texas, times was hard, and I had to help my daddy on the farm. No recriminations lay hidden under the plain statement, nor was there boasting when he said, If I'm living a little better now, it's because I treats everybody right.

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education and, even more amazing, no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack. He would say often, I been to school three years in my life. In Slaten, Texas, times was hard, and I had to help my daddy on the farm. No recriminations lay hidden under the plain statement, nor was there boasting when he said, If I'm living a little better now, it's because I treats everybody right.

Me había transmitido su palabra secreta con la que convocar un genio que había de servirme toda la vida: libros

Their love informed, educated, and liberated me.

They never hesitated to hold up their hands in response to a teacher's question; even when they were wrong they were wrong aggressively, while I had to be certain about all my facts before I dared to call attention to myself.

I have learnt that I still have lot to learn.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Dijo que siempre debía ser intolerante con la ignorancia, pero comprensiva con la incultura, y que ciertas personas, que no podían ir a la escuela, eran más instruidas e incluso más inteligentes que los profesores de universidad.

Blithering ignorance can be found wherever you choose to live.

Now they seemed not ready to give up the old school, the familiar paths and classrooms.

I would miss Mrs. Flowers, for she had given me her secret word which...was to serve me all my life: books.

If a little learning is dangerous, a little fame can be devastating.

We learned the times tables without understanding their grand principle, simply because we had the capacity and no alternative.

My entire stay there might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant teacher. Miss Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information. I will always believe that her love of teaching came not so much from her liking for students but her desire to make sure that some of the things she knew would find repositories so that they could be shared again.

I want to go to school. College. Get a degree. I want to make a difference.

Why had I taken all those useless classes like bio and German when I should have been taking lipreading?

You know in sixth grade, when they made all of us girls go into this other room and watch a video about getting our periods and stuff? I bet while we were gone, the boys were watching a video about how to look at each other in that infuriating way.

It's one thing to protect yourself," Dad yelled at me during our very next lunch. "That I get. Have I ever told you not to defend yourself? No. But did you have to permanently maim him? I spent all that money on that on that fancy school for girls-not to mention all that money for the shrinks-and what did that get me?" I shrugged. "A seven-figure civil suit?