Quotes About Education

What Chinese parents understand," Chua wrote, "is that nothing is fun until you're good at it. To get good at anything you have to work, and children on their own never want to work, which is why it is crucial to override their preferences. This often requires fortitude on the part of the parents because the child will resist; things are always hardest at the beginning, which is where Western parents tend to give up.

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

He who learns as a child, what is that like? It's like ink written on new paper. And he who learns as an old person, what is that like? It's like ink written on erased paper.

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

A gente precisa estar informada sobre tudo, papai. Para isso é que existem os livros. Sem esses rebeldes, o mundo não progredia. Eles vão na frente, abrindo o caminho.

we're a "lower order of people" in one breath we are damned for being "unassailable" and the next there is fear that we'll assimilate. ... If we are educated, the complaint is that we will cease being the "ideal servant".

Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

To receive many blessings, read to your children from the womb to the tomb.

Regarding school vs. homeschool If it works, send them there! If it doesn't, don't import it.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to be a genuine human being and impart satisfying meaning to one's existence, to have a good heart. —The 14th Dalai Lama

Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.

Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.

Para algo sí que sirve la licenciatura en Filología. Acabas conociendo un montón de sinónimos para definir una situación de mierda.

Todo lo que había hecho en su vida antes era sentarse delante de un libro. A absorber ideas de otros, sobre todo.

ideal de los villeros no es el de cultivar el comunitarismo, ni formar una microsociedad, ni preservar su "identidad cultural", sino salir de allí lo más pronto posible; incluso las familias de villeros más organizados y con mejor situación envían a sus hijos a escuelas lejos de las villas y los que tienen un trabajo dan un domicilio falso.

La ayuda a los pobres no consiste en exaltar la pobreza como un mérito sino en combatirla, y esto solo se consigue con posibilidades de trabajo, educación, vivienda, salud, control de la natalidad, integración plena a la sociedad.

Yo nunca he escrito ni escribiré nada para niños, porque creo que el niño puede leer los libros que lee el hombre, con determinadas excepciones que a todos se le ocurren. También habrá excepciones para hombres y para mujeres.

Cuál es la tarea de todo sistema escolar superior? Hacer del hombre una máquina. ¿Cuál es el medio para ello? El hombre tiene que aburrirse. ¿Cómo se consigue eso? Con el concepto de deber. ¿Quién es su modelo en esto? El filólogo: este enseña a ser un empollón ¿Quién es el hombre perfecto? El funcionario estatal…(

Qué tiene que ver, con mucho menos que esto en el Museo de La Plata te arman un dinosaurio.

the Democratic Party, and decades of Democratic control of Congress, the schools have continued to fail minority children? Big-city schools have become increasingly segregated by race and class in the last thirty years. Their academic performance has declined. In addition, the black middle class has joined whites in moving out to the suburbs to get their children away from those schools.