Quotes About Education

a school's worth should be measured not by how its students perform on standardized tests but by how well they function as adult graduates of the school...

Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.

She loved the classics and believed in reading out loud.

ADD has turned into a catchall for all childhood misbehavior. When a student's failing in class, or he gets into mischief

Because feeling uncomfortable is what a college education is all about—being exposed to disturbing aspects of human experience. We're talking about twentysomething adults who are exposed to a lot worse in the daily news. I'm not going to infantilize them.

Confucius said,To know that you don't know is the beginning of knowing.

There's no Martin Luther here," he said, "and whether the Vatican pays attention, who knows?" It wouldn't be easy. "We're dealing with a medieval organization, an organization that represented authority to my grandparents and other immigrants. It was an organization that was respected because it educated them, it gave them a place in the New World, it gave them an identity.

Irish and Italian kids were taught in Catholic schools that the Jews killed Jesus Christ. Such teachings encouraged anti-Semitism. Gangs of Catholic boys would seek revenge on Jewish kids.

Wenig Bildung macht Einbildung!

Denn man hört nie auf erziehungsbedürftig zu sein; ich gehe noch jetzt in die Schule und lerne von Leuten, die meine Enkel sein könnten.

Yet because of the ignorance and stupidity of so many of those about him, he was able to consider himself at least fairly learned.

From our earliest days, education has been a hallmark of our company. It was Walt himself who said, "We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment—as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained.

He had never graduated from any college or university because he found them too slow for him, and too rigid in their approach to education. He could not get used to the idea that perhaps his professors knew what they were talking about.

Why, you poor things—didn't you know? Knowledge and understanding aren't props for one another. Knowledge is a pile of bricks, and understanding is a way of building. Build for me!

Each of us is a product of our family, environment, friends, education, culture, and society. These conditions lead to a certain way of seeing things and a certain way of responding to things. When we see this, we have compassion for everyone, including ourselves. We see that if we want something to change, we also have to help change his or her family, environment, friends, education, culture, and society. We are responsible, directly or indirectly, for each person's consciousness attitudes.

If learning is not followed by reflecting and practicing, it is not true learning.

Many people still believe that we can only be happy when we have a lot of money and power. Looking around, we see many people who have plenty of money and power, but who still suffer very deeply from stress and loneliness. So power and money are not the answer. We have to educate ourselves in the art of living mindfully.

For many people, it [suffering] starts already at a very young age. So what don't schools teach our young people the way to manage suffering?

There needs to be a revolution in education. We must encourage schools to train our students in the art of living in peace and harmony. It isn't easy to learn to read, write, or solve math problems, but children manage to do it. Learning how to breathe, smile, and transform anger can also be difficult, but I have seen many young people succeed. If we teach children properly, by the time they are around twelve, they will know how to live harmoniously with others.

As we learn, whether by reading, listening, or discussing, we need to be open so we can see ways to put what we learn into practice. If learning is not followed by reflecting and practicing, it is not true learning.

I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate.

I'm either proud or embarrassed to say that I never took a journalism class in my life.

Journalism classes would have been interesting to me.

I graduated from Lehigh with a degree in journalism.