Quotes About Education

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable than teaching? Harriet Martineau

A beating will loosen a child's hide and let him grow.

Never embarrass a student in front of others. Embarrass yourself often to relieve the tension, but do not paint them into a corner.

In a classroom, when it's silent, they're thinking. You've got to give them time to think.

Like all of the other sciences, we have found out that the more we know, the more there is to know.

We want to eliminate rote, not find uses for it.

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand?

That's wrong, she declared. Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down.

If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

Ever since I was little my mother had told me, if you don't know something, go to the library and look it up.

The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be very useful in the real world, that's for sure.

Pero el principio de que el saber está por encima de la ignorancia en cualquier situación constituía la base de su manera de pensar y su postura ante la vida. Por muy doloroso que resultase, debía saberlo. Porque sólo el saber fortalece a las personas.

These guys are fakes. All they've got on their minds is impressing the new girls with the big words they're so proud of, while sticking their hanse up their skirts. And when they graduate,they cut their hair short and march off to work for Mitsubishi or IBM or Fuji Bank. They marry pretty wives who've never read Marx and have kids they give fancy names to that are enough to make you puke. Smash what educational-industrial complex? Don't make me laugh!

From elementary school up to college I was never interested in things I was forced to study. I told myself it was something that had to be done, I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me, and I could study it at my own pace and approach it the way I liked, I was pretty efficient at acquiring knowledge and skills.

The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

I never had what it takes to make a first-rate anything.' 'That's wrong,' she declared. 'Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it?' But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down.

Grandfather always said school's a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

Devouring books came as naturally to us as breathing.

Yeah. The more languages you know the better. And I've got a knack for them. I taught myself French and it's practically perfect. Languages are like games. You learn the rules for one, and they all work the same way. Like women.

Better to know a little, I figure, than nothing at all.

By the second week in September I reached the conclusion that a college education was meaningless. I decided to think of it as a period of training in techniques for dealing with boredom.

En el mundo hay gente educada y gente con tacto. Ambas son buenas cualidades, pero en la mayoría de los cados el tacto supera a la educación