Quotes About Education

Al que no aprende idiomas el cerebro se le convierte en puré de coliflor.

There are no dead languages, only dormant minds

If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the University and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.

Anthropologist and teacher Margaret Mead said in Redbook magazine in 1963, "If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the University and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.

Piaget has helped teachers of young children to see how important it is for children to experience whatever we want them to learn about.

It is a ground for legitimate criticism, however, when the ongoing movement of progressive education fails to recognize that the problem of selection and organization of subject matter for study and learning is fundamental," he responded (Dewey 1938, 78).

This knotted dilemma lies at the center of women's development. How can girls both enter and stay outside of, be educated in and then try to change, what for millennia has been a man's world?

Most of us made a rather extensive study of heterosexuality before leaving it behind. -Pat Califia

Hayley Haslett raised her hand and tapped on the door.

hippocampus (Greek for "sea horse," which it resembles)

Trying to educate a bigot is like shining light into the pupil of an eye—it constricts.

I was so hungry to learn. My mother drilled this into me. When you read, she said, you know--and you can help yourself and others.

You must love teaching', one mother said to Mr. Shevvington. 'Yes indeed. I think of each class as a zoo.' He laughed..'Twenty-six to a cage.

Every time he calls, I nag him to study." "I hear that boys don't like to be nagged." "Me too, but it's irresistible. You always want to take the boy and mold him into something better.

Ah—that's the beauty of higher education, sergeant. Never use two simple words when one really complicated one will do.

Healing comes from gathering wisdom from past actions and letting go of the pain that the education cost you.

You can never have too much information. Gather it in and then sift it, and let the unimportant fall through the small holes.

My grandmother taught me to read before I went to school. I was reading the newspaper when I was five. And Grandpa taught me to do math and figure. They believed in living simply. Grandpa grew a garden, and Grandma canned food for the winter. They taught me to work and to love to learn new things. I wasn't really afraid or shy.

Guess you can take the teacher out of the classroom, but you can't take the bossy out of the teacher.

When a person stops learning, they might as well drop over, graveyard dead." He shrugged. "Learning is what makes life fun.

Winning and Learning

He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had lived for a long time with foreigners in South America.

I expect he done read more books than any white man in this town. He done read more books and he done worried about more things. He full of books and worrying. He done lost God and turned his back to religion. All his troubles come down just to that.

It was like that kid had been born knowing how to read. He was only in the second grade but he loved to read stories by himself - and he never asked anybody else to read to him.