Quotes About Education

Education jargon is the language of pedants; it identifies those who have so little confidence in themselves and their work that they seek to create a veil of words to hide them.

the evidence is there. Thought control is, to a free people, a cardinal sin. It is dangerous because focused propaganda can be effective. This is why the best teachers insist on a broad range of learning, most especially including skepticism. We must teach our students to use caution when they are exposed to ideologies that have followers whose enthusiasm clouds their judgment.

Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.

Teachers who work with autistic children need to understand associative thought patterns.

To summarize this chapter, parents and teachers need to "stretch" individuals on the autism spectrum. They need to be stretched just outside their comfort zone for them to develop.

At the age of three, Tito Mukhopadhyay was diagnosed with severe autism, but his mother, Soma, refused to accept the conventional wisdom of the time that her son would be unable to interact with the outside world. She read to him, taught him to write in English, and challenged him to write his own stories.

A much more meaningful perspective is to teach this population the academic and interpersonal skills they need to be functional in the world and use their talents to the best of their ability.

The Asperger's child at the gifted meeting is doing well in school, but the Asperger's child at an autism meeting may be in a poor special ed program, bored, and getting into trouble because adults in his life hold lower expectations of his abilities. Unfortunately, in some cases, people are so hung up on the labels attached to students that they teach to these low expectations and aren't even curious to learn if the child is actually more capable.

Parents and teachers should look at the child, not the child's label, and remember that the same genes that produce his Asperger's may have given the child the capacity to become one of the truly great minds of his generation.

Flexible thinking is a highly important ability that is often—to the detriment of the child—omitted as a teachable skill on a child's IEP. It impacts a child in all environments, both now and in the future: school, home, relationships, employment, recreation.

How do I teach my child not to run into the street?" or "He knows not to run into the street at our house, but at Grandma's he runs into the street." In the first situation, the child actually has no concept of danger at all; in

Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!

Yes, well, I do have four brothers. A better education I cannot imagine." - Daphne Bridgerton

The [Madeira] School is still all girls and still thriving, and I am forever grateful for my time there and what it taught me. Not least of which is how to hold on tight and fake it during those trying stretches when functioning—and finishing—are not necessarily assured. To that end, I will repeat the line from my own senior yearbook page, not from Miss Madeira, but from Andrew Jackson: "You are uneasy; you've never sailed with me before, I see.

It's not just great teachers that shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers . . . Being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.

I had taken my little eight-year-old's hand and taken her right into Internet porn.

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

The ideal aim of life is] to learn, to teach, to serve, to enjoy!

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.

As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.

Violence is Black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years worth of education.

I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.

Where music survives in formal education, it has of necessity shifted its focus over the last generation to mirror everyday culture rather than to reflect upon it. One