Quotes About Education

When a style becomes opaque, when you look at it rather than looking through it, the schoolmarmly bell of reproach begins to ring.

But if I'm useless only because I haven't been properly educated, is that my fault?

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we're throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.

You    teach best       what you most need              to learn.

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you.

We are all learners, doers, and teachers.

is finding out        what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that      you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you.    You are all learners,      doers, teachers.

Do you know why they call me the Count? Because I love to count! Ah-hah-hah! - The Count Sesame Street

Had I a thousand daughters, by Heaven! I'd as soon have them taught the black art as their alphabet!

Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself. - Eleanor Roosevelt

it was impossible to convey the complexities of an economic reform programme when voters only understood war-cries or catchphrases. He was more effective at talking sense into people, and in improving their comprehension

It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.

Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.

If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened

Fundamentalist religion is hell-bent on ruining the scientific education of countless thousands of innocent, well-meaning, eager young minds. Non-fundamentalist, sensible religion may not be doing that. But it is making the world safe for fundamentalism by teaching children, from their earliest years, that unquestioning faith is a virtue.

Shouldn't children be taught critical, sceptical thinking from an early age? Shouldn't we all be taught to doubt, to weigh up plausibility, to demand evidence?

none of us will have forgotten that lesson. What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them: education in the true sense, very different from today's assessment-mad exam culture.

Religion is a distraction from true education.

It would be so nice if those who oppose evolution would take a tiny bit of trouble to learn the merest rudiments of what it is that they are opposing.