Quotes About Education

He talked to himself because there weren't many people as learned as he, and he liked to talk to learned people.

The goal of education is understanding; the goal of training is performance.

College is a singular opportunity to rummage through and luxuriate in ideas, to give your brain a vigorous workout and your soul a thorough investigation, to realize how very large the world is and to contemplate your desired place in it.

Nowadays the rights of one scumbag are considered far more important than the collective right of 29 others to be taught without being distracted.

Some teachers genuinely seem to believe that the politically correct nonsense that the kids should not be punished. Others are simpleminded and have allowed themselves to be brainwashed until they believe this.Most,I suspect, are simply worn down by years watching standards slide while being told there was they could,or should, do about it.

The lack of ability of those in charge to get a grip on a situation, and to take immediate, decisive action rather than simply debate everything endlessly, is one of the major problems in the State education system.

This is a recurring theme in schools: if you are quiet, well-behaved and fairly bright you will be ignored, whereas if you are a lunatic who shuts up for five minutes you will be handsomely rewarded. #

engaging' pupils rather than instructing them. Meaningless phrases such as 'linking cross curricular activities' and 'teaching children rather than subjects' are bandied around to wise nods of approval, but the one question that is never asked is: 'Does any of this weird stuff really work?

That's what teaching mostly is, the reinterpretation of familiar things in a new context.

The "secret" to success has always been the same: education and hard work.

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

Philip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass — not shelter. The meaning of the word shelter includes privacy.

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can't make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas, it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.

He had learnt it after a fashion, mostly by watching the charlatan operate. He had read many of the necessary books, but he was too hopelessly stupid to get much benefit from them.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

Busing is no good. When you bus kids, they don't earn nothing.