Quotes About Education

She's fifth-generation Mexican American, which means she learned Spanish in class just like I did.

What's certain is that I'm not going to be stuck with my parents' limited options. My mom graduated top of her class in the Philippines, but in America she cleans up vomit in a hospital, and my dad, the smartest man I know, drives a bus for a living.

And I'm saying that as someone who was castle-schooled by a woman who thinks the three R's are Rouging, Reddening, and Reapplying.

He proposed that she leave school at once and marry him, as surely she knew enough metaphysics already to keep house. I take it she didn't take the suggestion well. She threw a full cup of tea in his face.

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

O homem que não sofre atribulações não se educa.

If something went right, it was a teaching thing, and if something went wrong…it was a teaching thing.

It's always 'a thousand years' in stories, even if it was eight hundred ten or fourteen hundred eighty. 'A thousand years' is dramatic, and drama means more to people than accuracy, I'll tell you that for free. That's how you get throngs of obedient morons, while the educated have to work doubly hard to keep records accurate. Historians and librarians have saved more lives than Healers.

Knowledge will always be the best weapon against tyrants.

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

Teach what you know, regardless of when you have learned it—teach what you learned yesterday sagely, as if you have known it all your life, and teach what you have known for decades with enthusiasm, as if you learned it only yesterday.

Had she been fully white, had she been a man, Alderscroft would have had her brought into the fold and properly taught immediately.

The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest in everything. At first I thought high school would be fun but it's just dull. Everything's dull. Maybe it's because I'm growing up and life is becoming more blase.

Thank goodness my education was neglected. I was never sent to school...it would have rubbed off some of the originality (if I had not died of shyness or been killed with over pressure).

Best marks go to cheaters and memorizers. Marks depend on memorizing and not on real knowledge. When you cram into your head for a test you may get a high mark but forget it the next day. That's not an education. I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen

What makes you think you're so special? Just because you're a teacher? What he was really saying was: You are so special. You are my teacher. Then teach me, help me, Hey, Teach, I'm lost—which way do I go? I'm tired of going up the down staircase.

To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months' summer vacation with pay, all legal holidays, prestige and respect. My mother, for example, has the pleasant notion that my day consists of nodding graciously to the rustle of starched curtsies and a chorus of respectful voices bidding me good morning.

Tm not a teach. I'm a teacher. And I have a name. How would you like it if I called you Hey, pupe!? I'd like it fine. Why? It shows you're with it.

And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.

TO: ALL TEACHERS FROM: JAMES J. MCHABE, ADM. ASST. PLEASE PLOT AND HAND IN THE MEDIAN PERCENTILE CURVE BASED ON THE MIDTERM MARKS IN EACH OF YOUR CLASSES. IF A CLASS CURVE FALLS BELOW THE PERCENTILE OF FAILURES ALLOTTED TO IT, THE EFFICACY OF THE TEACHER MUST BE QUESTIONED. TEACHERS WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF PASSING STUDENTS ARE TO BE COMMENDED. JJ McH

Lady stand on line before me, speak English so good, like genius, in America only four years, I ashamed tell twenty-two years; I tell twenty!" To class she went only once. "I don't go back," she said emphatically. "Too foolish book, Dick and Jane." She shrugged disdainfully. "Not Tolstoi!

Bel Kaufman (1911–2014) was a writer, teacher, and lecturer best known for her classic, bestselling novel Up the Down Staircase (1965).

Please admit bearer to class— Detained by me for going Up the Down staircase and subsequent insolence. JJ McH

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.