Quotes About Education

The unprecedented powers that science now makes available must be accompanied by unprecedented levels of ethical focus and concern by the scientific community—as well as the sort broadly based public education into the importance of science and democracy.

Carl Sagan Quotes We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. Carl Sagan

There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path.

Knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable.

Something dreadful happens to students between first and twelfth grades, and it's not just puberty.

One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

MarkBaynard: I figured out in the first grade that it was better to crack a joke than somebody's skull.

book variables, student variables, and school variables.

We often speak of creating an environment for reading, a reading climate.

Children, in fact, spend more than fourteen thousand hours inside a school building over twelve years of schooling.

To paraphrase a quote from Fog and associates (2005): if a school does not stand for something more profound than raising achievement levels, then it probably does not make a memorable difference to teachers, students, or parents.

Change comes in the form of repetition. We are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, and no amount of education gleaned from our propensity for self-destruction and misguided thinking ever teaches us anything. Not anything that we remember for more than a generation or two, in any case. It's been so in the

Life is an education, Drisker. It is learned mostly through what you discover on your own and not through what others tell you.

Change comes in the form of repetition. We are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, and no amount of education gleaned from our propensity for self-destruction and misguided thinking ever teaches us anything.

That one can understand The Waste Land without even trying is consoling news for all students of literature.

Most of the reforms we now regard as precious features of liberal society—universal suffrage, free universal education, freedom of the press, trade unions and so on—were won by popular struggle in the teeth of ferocious ruling-class resistance.

Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But there is no university without humane inquiry, which means that universities and advanced capitalism are fundamentally incompatible. And the political implications of that run far deeper than the question of student fees.

Književno obrazovanje ima mnogo vrlina, ali sustavna misao nije jedna od njih.

Once you teach me something, it's mine to use.

Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.

Little things are a good place to start. Larger understanding is built on little things. We put those little things we learn together into larger concepts.

Just because knowledge exists, doesn't mean people know how to use it .

No matter how much you know, there will always be more; no one knows everything.