Quotes About Education

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Censorship in the schools that denies intellectual freedom to teachers robs the student of that same freedom. And the freedom to learn is clearly no less precious than the freedom to teach.

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist that they be cheerleaders.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

las personas con mentalidad de crecimiento creen que la inteligencia y la capacidad de aprendizaje son el resultado del esfuerzo y el trabajo duro.

The President gave a speech recommended for ages 2 to 6.

V dnešní dob? jsou sebejist?jší, motivovan?jší a pracovit?jší d?v?ata.

Because teachers often use much longer sentences when teaching, these kids are stuck trying to understand the first part while the teacher (or parent) is going full steam ahead with the rest of the message. The researchers recommend that teachers use short sentences and only go on speaking when they see that "lights go on" effect in children's eyes. And Dr. Sax adds that perhaps boys should sit at the front of the class, not the back. In

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.

So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.

Nor did the United States have a strategy for engagement, democratization, secular education, and economic development among the peaceful but demoralized majority populations of the Islamic world.

the Taliban's leaders had no idea where this turn in American attitudes had come from. They made little effort to find out. When pressed on the issue of education for girls by the occasional visiting American delegation, they said, "This is God's law," recalled the State Department's Leonard Scensny. "This is the way it's supposed to be. Leave us alone.

The people of Afghanistan, they are Muslims, and nobody is rejecting Islam here," he said. "This is very easy for the people of Afghanistan to come together and solve this. America came here for what? They came for women? No. They came for education? No. They came because they were attacked from Afghanistan and they sought security. This is their right. But they should not occupy or interfere with Afghanistan.

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

Epicureanism says, "Be sensuous; enjoy yourself." Education says, "Be resourceful; expand yourself." Materialism says, "Be satisfied; please yourself." Psychology says, "Be confident; fulfill yourself." Pride says, "Be superior; promote yourself" Humanism says, "Be capable; believe in yourself." But God says to us, "Be wise; humble yourself.

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.

life responsibilities in the right order: God, family, education, and then business.

he's become the man he envisioned himself being and has put his priorities in this order: God, family, education, business, and then everything else. But if family isn't second, it's about to be a problem;

As Jessica Lahey writes in her book The Gift of Failure, "The quickest way to kill off your child's interest in a game, topic, or experiment is to impose your will on her learning."9

Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.

If you can't excite people about wildlife, how can you convince them to love, cherish, and protect our wildlife and the environment they live in?