Quotes About Education

Ensino é] descoberta com auxílio

o professor consegue fazer muita coisa pelos seus alunos, mas quem tem que aprender são eles. O conhecimento só frutifica na mente deles caso o aprendizado ocorra.

There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding.

If one could enumerate all the essentials which a sound educational program consider, I would say that the techniques of communication, which make for literacy, are our first obligation, and more so in a cemocracy than in any other kind of society, because it depends on a literate electorate.

1. WHAT IS THE BOOK ABOUT AS A WHOLE?

intelligent action depends on knowledge. Knowledge

For those of us who are no longer in school, we observed, it is necessary, if we want to go on learning and discovering, to know how to make books teach us well. In that situation, if we want to go on learning, then we must know how to learn from books, which are absent teachers.

There have always been literate ignoramuses who have read too widely and not well.

No es necesario saberlo todo acerca de un tema para comprenderlo; en muchas ocasiones, la existencia de demasiados hechos representa un obstáculo tan grande como la existencia de demasiados pocos. En la actualidad vivimos inundados de hechos, en detrimento de la comprensión.

não importa se o que aprendeu é um fato sobre o livro ou um fato sobre o mundo: você aprendeu apenas informações, caso tenha exercitado apenas sua memória.

terms as a skilled use of words for the sake of communicating knowledge.

A primeira ignorância é a do analfabeto, isto é, do sujeito incapaz de ler. A segunda ignorância é a do sujeito que leu muitos livros, mas os leu de maneira incorreta.

Just as teaching will not avail unless there is a reciprocal activity of being taught, so no author, regardless of his skill in writing, can achieve communication without a reciprocal skill on the part of readers.

One should not have to spend four years in graduate school in order to learn how to read. Four years of graduate school, in addition to twelve years of preparatory education and four years of college—that adds up to twenty full years of schooling. It should not take that long to learn to read. Something is very wrong if it does.

effectively? Yes and no. Up to the fifth and sixth grade, reading, on the whole, is effectively taught and well learned. To that level

State in your own words!" That suggests the best test we know for telling whether you have understood the proposition or propositions in the sentence. If, when you are asked to explain what the author means by a particular sentence, all you can do is repeat his very words, with some minor alterations in their order, you had better suspect that you do not know what he means. Ideally, you should be able to say the same thing in totally different words.

to Read a Book was first published in the early months of 1940.

The year after How to Read a Book was published, a parody of it appeared under the title How to Read Two Books; and Professor I. A. Richards wrote a serious treatise entitled How to Read a Page.

Note here the close relation between reading and listening. If we ignore the minor difference between these two ways of receiving communication, we can say that reading and listening are the same art - the art of being taught.

It is not surprising that the liberal arts were most assiduously cultivated in the Middle Ages than ever before or after. When theology is queen of the sciences, liberal education flourishes in her train.

Read it quickly and with total immersion.

But in order to forget them as separate acts, you have to learn them first as separate acts.

Reading as Learning: The Difference Between Learning by Instruction and Learning by Discovery

Teachability is often confused with subservience. A person is wrongly thought to be teachable if he is passive and pliable. On the contrary, teachability is an extremely active virtue. No one is really teachable who does not freely exercise his power of independent judgment.