Quotes About Education

The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

Though most students in those days read with an accomplished attorney in his office, Lincoln taught himself entirely on his own.

our citizens must be protected, even from being dumb, which is not a crime.

The British public schools have become, so to speak, the property of the British public, through alumni who have given themselves to England. But American private schools have remained for the most part "private." And, in the tradition of American private enterprise, which believes that a share of the profits should be plowed back into the corporation, American prep school alumni have given largely to the treasuries of their alma maters.

Something of an exception in their approach to education—as indeed they often were to other things—were the Seligmans, led by Joseph, whose longing for Americanization was overpowering. Several of his brothers had early Americanized their first names. Henry was originally Hermann, William was Wolf, James was Jacob, Jesse was Isaias, and Leopold was Lippmann.

People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.

In On the Origin of Species, Darwin openly acknowledged important weaknesses in his theory and professed his own doubts about key aspects of it. Yet today's public defenders of a Darwin-only science curriculum apparently do not want these, or any other scientific doubts about contemporary Darwinian theory, reported to students.

Agassiz trained an army of able young naturalists who took his method to other universities, and they in turn passed them on to their students, themselves future professors.38

heard how badly I mangled French. Even if it was no good for my education, I was delighted to find that

Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge... or when I want to create some.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Language is best taught when it is being used to transmit messages, not when it is explicitly taught for conscious learning.

The better the school library, the higher the reading scores.

What immersion has taught us is that comprehensible subject-matter teaching is language teaching — the subject matter class is a language class if it is made comprehensible. In fact, the subject-matter class may even be better than the language class for language acquisition.

You should welcome your ignorance because it enables you to learn. (31)

In high school, American history had been a happy story; now Chihani told them the sad one.

How much of life have I wasted by believing the thing I was taught, that thinking is what makes us better, that the brain is superior to heart. —AUTHOR'S JOURNAL, JUNE 2001

I was never able to find it in the analysis of chemicals or in degree programs or in any of my schools. But sometimes I find it in the soft flutter of butterflies, in the wildness of plants growing undomesticated in a forest clearing, in the laughter and running of young children, their hair flowing in the wind, and sometimes, sometimes I find it in the words of teachers who come among us from time to time—out there, far outside these walls, in the wildness of the world.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Stupidity ain't a virus, but it's sure is spreadin' like one. - Sandy Cheeks

The teacher is not simply an intermediary who gives out parcels of information, but is there to facilitate and confirm true understanding, to provide conditions where education can take place.

Between the influence of the graduates of the small university at Wittenberg and the graduates of the small Academy of Geneva, the world was changed. R.C. Sproul

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.