Quotes About Education

By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body of conceptual knowledge formulated in language dominates his memory and controls his graphic work. Drawings are graphic accounts of essentially verbal processes. As an essentially verbal education gains control, the child abandons his graphic efforts and relies almost entirely on words. Language has first spoilt drawing and then swallowed it up completely.

I loved education, which is why I spent as little time as possible in school.

All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story.

Learning to read, and to a lesser degree, to write, are of course the major events in one's intellectual development. There is nothing to compare with it, since very few people (Helen Keller is the great exception) can remember what it meant for them to learn to speak.

Adev?rata ignoran?? nu este absen?a cunoa?terii, ci refuzul de a o dobândi.

La vera ignoranza non è la manca di cultura, ma il rifiuto di acquisirla.

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance.

We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men; in fact, he was skeptical of all professional learnedness, whether it was that of the philosophers or of the learned men of his own generation, the Sophists. The wisdom he meant was of a different kind. It was simply the realization: how little do I know! Those who did not know this, he taught, knew nothing at all. This is the true scientific spirit.

Haydi mast?rl?lar ve doktoral?lar, k?z??t?r?n ortal???! (Goethe, Faust)

Her usçu Kant ile birlikte ?unlar? söyleyebilmelidir: Felsefe ö?retilemez - olsa olsa felsefe yapmak ö?retilebilir; yani ele?tirel yakla??m. (Hayat Problem Çözmektir)

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans- unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

To hurt the Negro and avoid the JewIs the curriculum.

Before that, she was an elementary school teacher, until the state stripped the unions of collective bargaining rights in the Right to Learn Act, subcontracting public school education to for-profit corporations. She still missed teaching, but that was strictly an hourly-wage temp job now, for those lucky enough to get hired.

I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.