Quotes About Education

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him.

The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher (is) to protect the pupil from his own influence

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

The scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

the District Teachers Guild of Vizianagaram and the Central Jewish Board of Bombay

The first such avenue was education. After Independence there was a great expansion in school and college education. By law, a certain portion of seats were reserved for the Scheduled Castes. By policy, different state governments endowed scholarships for children from disadvantaged homes.

But the history of independent India has remained a field mostly untilled. If history is 'formally constituted knowledge of the past', then for the period since 1947 this knowledge practically does not exist.

They go to Paris to learn how to make bombs and they come back having learned only how to write poetry, which they think is more explosive.

At [my old school], when teachers stood up to address us in assemblies, it was to urge us to study hard, stay focused, remain resilient, set goals, seek support. If there was a "leader," she was the exception, not the norm. Listening to [the adults here], I wonder if things would be different if we spent thirteen years being told that we were born to lead, and that the only thing that would ever hold us back would be a limited imagination.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

Though it would appear that Americans grow less knowledgeable by the day, there are still many American schoolchildren who recognize the Roman Colosseum, the Great Wall of China, the Parthenon, the Tower of London. From Africa, only the great pyramids of Egypt enjoy such broad recognition, and they are popularly and wrongly attributed to a civilization not spawned from Africa's interior.

When America liked it? When Cuba was racially segregated? When education was only available to a privileged few? When the poor died of easily curable ailments? When vice was rampant? Had they preferred Batista's mafia-infested Cuba? Or the Cuba between the state that Teddy Roosevelt preened to subjugate and Franklin Delano Roosevelt worked to keep?

Why has the medical profession not taken advantage of the help available from evolutionary biology, a well-developed branch of science with great potential for providing medical insights? One reason is surely the pervasive neglect of this branch of science at all educational levels. Religious and other sorts of opposition have minimized the impact in general education of Darwin's contributions to our understanding of ourselves and the world we live in.

educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can't accurately do that, how can we tell if we're getting better or worse?