Quotes About Education

I have actually five honorary degrees.

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.

Il est bon à savoir. It is good to know.

Woodenly written, ineptly footnoted. It was so bad it was starting to make Connie angry. There often came a moment in grading when Connie struggled with anger at her students. That was usually when it was time to stop for the night.

Si a priori l'Occident a besoin de l'Orient traditionnel, celui-ci a besoin a posteriori de l'Occident qui a été à son école. "Sur les traces de la religion pérenne

Anyone who reads Thoreau might find his sage advice a beacon for living a fulfilling life. The key is to leave your life open to opportunities, ideas and change—offered by education, travel, reading books and joining clubs. When you do, you will meet others who love to explore their spirits, minds and potential talents. Once you mingle with those people, their ideas cascade onto and into you.

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.

What the public wants is a little intellectual 'kick', and nothing else has quite the kick of mathematics.

In 1894, historian Theodor Mommsen wrote that the root cause of the anti-Semitic "affliction" was "envy and the basest instincts,… a barbaric hatred for education, freedom, and humanism.

Parents stress the importance of learning to their children and carefully monitor their progress. Not infrequently, those children are well ahead of their Christian schoolmates in terms of intellectual curiosity and persistent diligence.

Around the same time, it was reported from Odessa: "All the schools are full, bottom to top, with Jewish pupils, and to be honest, the Jews are always the best in their class."20 Thinking back on his

To understand anti-Semitism within Germany's Gentile majority, one has to talk about the skills, educational fervor, and rapid social rise of striking numbers of German Jews. Only then will the contrast emerge between them and the relatively lethargic German majority, revealing why anti-Semitism could gain so large a foothold in German society. Only then can we see anti-Semites as people motivated in large part by jealousy and resentment.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

In this country, we kept slaves from learning to read. Additionally, for a while in our history, you were adequately literate if you could simply sign your name—or even just make an X. In developing countries today, girls are still educated less than boys. What do these situations suggest about the potential power of reading?

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

Wood felt his professors were out of touch with reality and, while "very smart people in their limited field,... they had no business judging whether I did something good or bad." The

How is a boy's mind to expand if he does not ask questions, and who should be so well able to answer his questions as his father?

One rather curious conclusion emerges, that pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. ... For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

La educación es, tal vez, la forma más alta de buscar a Dios.

I am a school teacher doing life and death sums.

To become a great teacher, one must become a teaching.

Do you like Moby Dick ?" he asks. "I hate it," she says. "And I don't say that about many things. Teachers assign it, and parents are happy because their kids are reading something of 'quality.' But it's forcing kids to read books like that that make them think they hate reading.