Quotes About Education

I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

But in this respect I do not think I am much worse off than the girls who take notes. If the mind is occupied with the mechanical process of hearing and putting words on paper at pell-mell speed, I should not think one could pay much attention to the subject under consideration or the manner in which it is presented.

actual I have learned many things I should never have known had I not tried the experiment. One of them is the precious science of patience, which teaches us that we should take our education as we would take a walk in the country, leisurely, our minds hospitably open to impressions of every sort. Such knowledge floods the soul unseen with a soundless tidal wave of deepening thought.

I keep thinking of the gifts of my own upbringing, which I once took for granted: I can read any book I choose and comprehend it. I can write a complete sentence and punctuate it correctly. If I need help, I can call on judges, attorneys, educators, ministers. I wonder what I would be like if I had grown up without such protections and supports. What cracks would have turned up in my character?

Soon she came to understand how essential it was to know these things. That was when she began to read.

Nora had bewust een paar kinderen gewild, niet in de eerste plaats uit een emotioneel hunkeren naar het moederschap, maar misschien vooral omdat grootbrengen, opvoeden, een uitdaging inhielden, hoge eisen stelden aan inventiviteit, aan de gave tot voorbereiden, anticiperen, op het juiste ogenblik toepassen, die het destijds Muisje Bloemcaps mogelijk hadden gemaakt met superieur gemak alle lesmateriaal te beheersen.

An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance a very dangerous person.

Its main responsibility is health spending, but it oversees a lot of other things as well. Education, culture, and so on.

Many students have been for so many years on the receiving side and have become so deeply impregnated with the idea that there is still a lot more to learn, that they have lost confidence in themselves and can hardly imagine that they themselves have something to give, not only to the ones who are less educated but to their fellow students and teachers as well.

The gospel that proclaims the intrinsic worth, sacred value, and essential dignity of human beings encourages our work for equal rights, good housing, good medical care, and good education, and our fight for justice and peace in the world.

When we look at teaching in terms of hospitality, we can say that the teacher is called upon to create for his students a free and fearless space where mental and emotional development can take place.

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

The world can absorb only doses of truth, he said; too much would kill it. One sought education in order to adjust the dose.

He could teach his students nothing. He was only educating himself at their cost.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts, but education and politics are two different and often contradictory things.

Harvard College was probably less hurtful than any other university then in existence. It taught little, and that little ill, but it left the mind open, free from bias, ignorant of facts, but docile.

They know enough who know how to learn.

From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics, and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers.

I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.

It's too late to be studying Hebrew; it's more important to understand even the slang of today.