Quotes About Education

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulations, stands mainly in need of freedom.

Your laptop never learns—it is just as dumb today as it was yesterday or last year. But the human brain literally rewires itself after learning any task.

Las escuelas de derecho no deben ser espacios inmunes a la discusión política que se da en la sociedad.

La afición a la lectura ha llegado a ser tan peligrosa que el analfabetismo se hace deseable y honroso.

What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.

We domesticate humans the same way we domesticate a dog or any other animal: with punishment and reward. This is perfectly normal. What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.

During the period of our education, or our domestication, we learn to take everything personally. We think we are responsible for everything. Me, me, me, always me!

Early in its education every mind learns how to use words to threaten, to punish, and to destroy. If that fact sounded harsh to his apprentices, he had only to remind them of how they spoke to themselves—how they attacked themselves on a daily basis. The mind is its own kind of predator, whether it belongs to the body of a bashful woman or a brawny man.

Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about "me." During the period of our education, or our domestication, we learn to take everything personally. We think we are responsible for everything. Me, me, me, always me!

Knowledge is what enables one to be wrong. (p. 11)

As you go through life, you're gonna find out what I found, sometimes the hard way, that you're never too old to learn, that you can teach an old dog new tricks.

Why is everyone such a cunt about grammer?

A good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it

Teaching social science is at its best meant assisting students in making connections across time and place, both seeking common humanity and coming to understand broad historical and political forces.

We bus to avoid integrating our housing, underscoring the fact that we continually ask our schools to do what we can't seem to do in other domains of our society.

I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.

There is absolutely no necessity to learn how to read; meat smells a mile off, anyway.

Jika ingin menghancurkan sebuah bangsa dan peradaban, hancurkan buku-bukunya; maka pastilah bangsa itu akan musnah.

Allí donde habla el corazón es de mala educación que la razón lo contradiga

When young people's education is at stake, compromise is crime.

La cultura sucumbe bajo el volumen de la producción, la avalancha de letras, la locura de la cantidad. Por ese motivo te digo que un libro prohibido en tu país significa infinitamente más que los millones de palabras que vomitan nuestras universidades.

The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence.

Mladost je užasna; to je pozornica po kojoj na visokim štulama i u najrazli?itijim kostimima hodaju djeca i izgovaraju nau?ene rije?i koje tek napola razumiju, ali kojima su fanati?no odani.

Exist? un anumit num?r de întreb?ri feminine clasice, pe care orice b?rbat le afl? mai devreme sau mai târziu în viaÈ›a sa, întreb?ri pentru care institutele de înv???mânt ar trebui s? preg?teasc? tineretul studios.