Quotes About Education

because in their quest for power, they needed to have those they'd have power over, and those people are us. And they have taught this lesson of power to the boys and men of Molotschna, and the boys and men of Molotschna have been excellent students in that regard.

Crec en el que pensava el gran poeta Samuel Taylor Coleridge sobre quins eren els punts cardinals de l'educació primerenca: «Treballar amb amor i així crear amor. Acostumar la ment a la precisió intel·lectual i la veritat. Estimular el poder de la imaginació». Coleridge conclou la seva obra Lecture on Education amb aquestes paraules: «Ben poc s'aprèn de la competició o la baralla, tot s'aprèn de la comprensió i de l'amor».

Li vaig preguntar què en traurien, ella i la resta de dones, de les actes, si cap no sabia llegir? (I ella, per la seva banda, em podia haver preguntat: Què en traiem de viure si no som al món?)

They were apoplectically suspicious of higher learning—especially for girls. Public enemy number one for these men was a girl with a book.

But what is the bedrock of civilized society? Libraries, said Elf.

I believe in what the great poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge thought were the cardinal rules of early education: 1. To work by love and so generate love 2. To habituate the mind to intellectual accuracy and truth 3. To excite imaginative power In his lecture on education, Coleridge concluded with the words 'Little is taught by contest or dispute, everything by sympathy and love.

Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?

You need someone to probe you in that direction. It won't just happen automatically. I knew what he was saying. We all need teachers in our lives.

A teacher's shadow can hover for life.

No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."   —HENRY ADAMS

Over time, I guess all your teachers find their way into your music, right?

It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more.

the classroom as a living, breathing place. They chose discussions over lectures, experience over theory. They sent students to the Deep South for civil rights projects and to the inner city for fieldwork. They went

Don't fall asleep in classes. It's such a lucky thing you have, to be taught and to be learning and not have to be working in a shop somewhere.

You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days.

An education is everything, Charley. An education is how you'll make something of yourself.

He was making sure I absorbed this point, without embarrassing me by asking. It was part of what made him a good teacher.

Once he could read, all knowledge was within reach.

It was only through default that the best professor I ever had became a teacher.

Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine? If you are lucky enough to find your way to such teachers, you will always find your way back. Sometimes it is only in your head. Sometimes it is right alongside their beds.

The teaching goes on

Learning to pay attention? How important could that be? I now know it is more important than almost everything they taught us in college.

ÎÈ›i poÈ›i imagina s? ai un timp infinit la dispoziÈ›ie pentru a înv??a?