Quotes About Education

The most important learning is the ability to accept and expect mistakes, and deal with the disappointments that they bring.

For Rogers, the very act of asking questions, and trying to answer them honestly, was the key to growing and learning: "We can't always know what's behind a child's question. But if we let a child know we respect the question, we're letting that child know that we respect him or her. What a powerful way to say, "I care about you!

despite the spreading of mass education, cognitive skills now seem to be weakening. Many employers, at least in the United States, experience difficulty finding workers capable of having a serious conversation, with over sixty percent of applicants lacking basic social skills.

schooling meant that schools had "become, by design, institutions for the preservation of adolescence

Until the mid-1950s, universities such as Harvard and Yale often admitted students on the basis of family connections. By the mid-1960s, largely due to the rise of educational testing, more merit-based standards had taken hold, and students from a wider range of social backgrounds found themselves on campuses that had been off-limits to their parents.64

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.

Responsibility Training is rigged from the ground up so that the students win.

To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave.

There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.

My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.

Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.

Der Inhalt der Physik geht die Physiker an, die Auswirkung alle Menschen.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.