Quotes About Education

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books." [ Proposition touching Amendment of Laws ]

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Knowledge itself is power

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning, by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.

Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested

Whatever our level of education, we can truly read and understand the Scriptures in the light of our faith in Jesus, the living Word, who is present and speaks to us today in and through his Church. Outside of that faith, no one can do theology or understand Scripture as God intends it to be understood.

Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock, and Matt Andrews have argued that one of the big problems with developing countries' governments is that they engage in what they term "isomorphic mimicry," that is, copying the outward forms of developed countries' governments, while being unable to reproduce the kinds of outputs, like education and health, that the latter achieve.

Clientelism is an efficient form of political mobilization in societies with low levels of income and education, and is therefore best understood as an early form of democracy.

National identity begins with a shared belief in the legitimacy of the country's political system, whether that system is democratic or not. Identity can be embodied in formal laws and institutions that dictate, for example, what the educational system will teach children about their country's past, or what will be considered an official national language.

Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.

But there is, alas, no doubt that we are becoming a vocabulary-deprived nation—nay, planet. Words have been dropping off all through this century, but the loss increased radically in the sixties with the immorality of "limited vocabulary.

an essay in the Human Rights Reader, Rorty suggested that the basis for human rights is not rationality or moral law but "what Baier calls 'a progress of sentiments.'…It is the result of what I have been calling 'sentimental education.'"17 So the basis for morality, in Rorty's view, is "sentiment." We are back to preferences and tastes. But whose sentiments? Rorty's? A Nazi's? Or someone else's?

Knowledge is never too dear.

IPAE insistía en que «el gerente se hace, no nace».

el subdesarrollo mexicano se encuentra en la catástrofe educativa, en la superstición religiosa y en la intolerancia política.

en el momento en que Agustín de Iturbide tomó el poder, el 98% de los mexicanos eran analfabetos… esa fue la gran herencia educativa de la maestra-iglesia, un lastre que no se pudo eliminar a lo largo del México independiente, hasta llegar a nuestros días, con 50 millones de mexicanos sepultados en la miseria… esta es la mejor prueba de su ignorancia, pues si contaran con títulos académicos difícilmente estarían en esa condición.

Quién se preocupa realmente por lo que les enseñan a nuestros hijos en la escuela?

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

the wise may be instructed by a fool

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Amalia est en colère : quand sa prof comprendra-t-elle qu'un livre ne s'impose pas, qu'il se rencontre ?