Quotes About Education

Forty percent of the new dental school graduates were women, although as late as 1970 the dean of the University of Texas dental school had insisted on admitting no more than two women in every class of a hundred because "girls aren't strong enough to pull teeth.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

like in the institutions, universities, active and responsively responding faculties should be developed in human brain to receive respective knowledge and reality of the world. Otherwise people do not understand what the speaker is saying.

Teaching of Maths and Science mean teaching of Truths; this teaching of natural truths is forbidden in Madrasa. In Quran the Sun revolves around the Earth even in 21st century!

Terrorism is just the product, root cause of the terrorism is the exclusive education in some faiths and the Arms production in some countries.

La culture n'est pas un luxe, c'est une nécessité

Adults discourage children from asking philosophical questions, first by being patronizing to them and then by directing their inquiring minds towards more "useful" questions. Most adults aren't themselves interested in philosophical questions. They may be threatened by some of them. Moreover, it doesn't occur to most adults that there are questions that a child can ask that they can't provide a definitive answer to and that aren't answered in a standard dictionary or encyclopedia either.

Teachers who complain 'These kids have no work ethic' couldn't be farther off the mark. The problem is not that these kids lack a work ethic; the problem is that some of them see no connection between a work ethic and school. None of them would think, for example, to say to a customer at the MacDonald's drive-up window, 'Do you think I could get you those Chicken McNuggets some time tomorrow?' Yet we give sanction to that sort of request when it comes to school assignments.

The bottom line here -- and I use the phrase with an eye to the mind-set that promotes these 'systems' -- is that I am increasingly devoting more time to the generation and recording of data and less time to the educational substance of what the data is supposed to measure. Think of it as a man who develops ever more elaborate schemes for counting his money, even as he forfeits more and more of his time for earning the money he counts.

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

Real estate offers huge financial advantages to those who will learn the system.

The two main reasons you need to own your own corporation are for protection against law suits and against excessive taxes, yet there are many other reasons and other strategies. The point is, if you are serious about being rich and keeping your wealth, understanding corporations and other legal structures is an important part of your ongoing financial education.

Unfettered inquisitiveness, it is clear, teaches better than do intimidating assignments.

I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for Stephen Hawking, I, too, would write great books. And yet you don't teach me to read, and you don't give me a computer stick I can push around with my nose to point at the next letter I wish typed. So whose fault is it that I am what I am?

I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.