Quotes About Education

Like a delicatessen owner who sells rancid meat and then blames his business failure on the vulgarization of customer taste, humanities professors account for their plight by faulting their students. "All they care about is money." "Twitter

People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave ' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool.'

Learn! Which way do you wish to learn?" This is the ultimate first act of free will: How do you wish to learn?

The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

Why does America have thousands of suicide prevention centers and not one homicide prevention center?

There are no words to express how much I love learning.

Live to learn... forget... and learn again.

I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.

One Child: I hope it will be said we taught them to stand tall & proud, even in the face of history & the future was made new & whole for us all, one child at a time.

When I die, she said, I am coming back as a tree with deep roots and I'll wave my leaves to the children every morning on their way to school & whisper tree songs at night in their dreams. Trees with deep roots know about the things that children need.

If you don't know the difference between theology and religious studies, then you're a theologian.

The trick as an educated citizen of the twenty-first century is to realise that Nature is far stranger and more wonderful than human imagination, and the only appropriate response to new discoveries is to enjoy one's inevitable discomfort, take delight in being shown to be wrong and learn something as a result.

I believe powerfully that we who have the power should strive to extend the gift of education to everyone. Education is the most important investment a developed society can make, and the most effective way of nurturing a developing one.

If there is one thing we try to teach our students when they first arrive at the University of Manchester, ready to learn to be physicists, it is that everyone gets confused and stuck. Very few people understand difficult concepts the first time they encounter them, and the way to a deeper understanding is to move forward with small steps. In the words of Douglas Adams: 'Don't panic!

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

How deliciously ironic that something so apparently beneficial to the mind as education could be twisted into a tool of power to lull young minds into thoughtless adherence.

When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level

The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

We are trained to believe and not to know.

These subjects were also covered in classes, but this was the Age of Enlightenment and the pursuit of knowledge was all the rage—even among fun-loving young men. Benjamin

In the coming years the enslaved child, by then a man, would quote Auld's words often. They had sparked the crucial understanding that reading and knowledge were the keys to his freedom. Young as he was, Freddy saw that ignorance was a weapon in the hands of the slaveholder, one that was far more dangerous than the whip.

The earth is like a one-room schoolhouse in which students of different grade levels are assembled together:

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.