Quotes About Education

To this day, most institutions of higher learning either do not know how to instruct students in reading beyond the elementary level, or lack the facilities and personnel to do so.

It is traditional in America to criticize the schools; for more than a century, parents, self-styled experts, and educators themselves have attacked and indicted the educational system.

As Thomas Hobbes said, "If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

The student can read as fast as his mind will let him, not as slow as his eyes make him.

The mind can atrophy, like the muscles, if it is not used.

In tackling a difficult book for the first time, read it through without ever stopping to look up or ponder the things you do not understand right away.

A mind not agitated by good questions cannot appreciate the significance of even the best answers. It is easy enough to learn the answers. But to develop actively inquisitive minds, alive with real questions, profound questions—that is another story.

É um erro acreditar que ler muito e ler bem são a mesma coisa.

Reading and the Democratic Ideal of Education

I have seen the fruits of adult education. It can be done. And anyone who has worked in adult education knows that he must appeal for self-help. There are no monitors to keep adults at the task. There are no examinations and grades, none of the machinery of external discipline. The person who learns something out of school is self-disciplined. He works for merit in his own eyes, not credit from the registrar. (1940 ed. page 104)

The First Level of Reading: Elementary Reading

The first stage of elementary reading—reading readiness—corresponds to pre-school and kindergarten experiences.

Theoretical books teach you that something is the case. Practical books teach you how to do something you want to do or think you should do.

If you read for understanding, reading for information will usually take care of itself.

We must become a nation of truly competent readers, recognizing all that the word competent implies.

Anyone who fails to consult the explanatory notes and the list of abbreviations at the beginning of a dictionary has only himself to blame if he is not able to use it well.

That they often do not even reach it is apparent to many parents and to most educators. The reasons for the failure are many, ranging all the way from various kinds of deprivations in the home environment—economic, social, and/or intellectual (including parental illiteracy)—to personal problems of all kinds (including total revolt against "the system").

At various times in the history of education, a distinction has been made between learning through instruction and learning through discovery.

Every book, no matter how difficult, contains interstitial material that can be and should be read quickly; and every good book also contains matter that is difficult and should be read very slowly.

Os gregos tinham um nome especial nome especial para essa estranha mistura de aprendizado e estupidez - um nome que pode ser aplicado aos literatos ignorantes de todas as eras. Eles chamavam esse fenômeno de sofomania.

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We must be more than a nation of functional literates. We must become a nation of truly competent readers, recognizing all that the word competent implies. Nothing less will satisfy the needs of the world that is coming.

outside help should be sought whenever a book remains unintelligible to you, either in whole or part, after you have done your best to read it according to the rules of intrinsic reading.

A descoberta está para o ensino assim como o aprendizado sem professor está para o aprendizado com professor.