Quotes About Education

All leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you stop leading. — RICK WARREN

Even his ignorance is encyclopedic.

Cómo ejercitar la memoria para que aprenda a olvidar?

All departures from the mere accommodation of function are laden with messages, often very eloquent ones, and it is a critical part of the interior designer's education to become adept at reading those messages and then choosing which ones to send.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

Maia Szalavitz, author of Unbroken Brain: Why Addiction is a Learning Disorder and What to Do About It; neuroscience

Publishing in an academic journal doesn't do anything to dispel racist ideas.

Education and science is an anathema for all religion.

Consciously or unconsciously, our education renders us slaves to morals, religion and a perceived vision of the world; our breath is the air of the epoch in which we live.

What one's muscles have missed can be made up later; the élan toward the intellectual, the soul's inner grasping power, is set in motion in those decisive formative years, and only he who has learned early to spread his soul out wide may later hold the entire world within himself.

should judge the aptitude of a child not by his memory but by the testimony of his life… Let the young man read and sift and verify, not just accept the authority in good faith. A rich variety of opinions must be presented to him. He will make his choice, and if he cannot, then he will remain in doubt. He who sheep-like follows another follows nothing. He discovers nothing, because he seeks nothing.

Das Studium ist nicht einmal Nebensache, es ist Formalität:

To know by heart is not to know, it is to keep what they have given you and store it in your memory.

seine Unbildung war auf allen Gebieten gleich universell«.

Carlyle's axiom that the true university of these days is a good collection of books has remained valid as far as I'm concerned, and even today I am convinced that one can become an excellent philosopher, historian, philologist, lawyer, or what will you, without having attended a university or even a Gymnasium.

La vera universalità non può venire da fugaci letture o discussioni, ma va conquistata con anni e anni di ardenti fatiche.

o güne kadar okulda kay?ts?z ve s?radan bir öÄŸrenci iken,ans?z?n birinci oldum,gecenin geç saatlerine kadar pek çok kitap okuyordum,zira senin kitaplar sevdiÄŸini biliyordum...

One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favourite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.

Learning and seeing are more important than education.

If I go to Stanfurd, I can get a good job and not have to sell oranges by the side of the highway.

One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.

Up until 1900, more than half the graduates from women's colleges remained single, many of them carving out careers in new fields such as social work.