Quotes About Education

Writing has become foundational to finding meaningful employment across much of the workforce.

How did the Finns build the best readers in the world? By eliminating standardized testing and emphasizing the importance of reading and critical thinking, by nurturing deeper thinking and creativity, and by leading their students away from the drill-and-kill instructional approach that is currently permeating American schools.

The moments of the class must belong to the student—not the students, but to the very undivided student. You don't teach a class. You teach a student.

The best teaching is often both an intellectual creation and a performing art.

Simply put, the best teachers believe that learning involves both personal and intellectual development and that neither the ability to think nor the qualities of being a mature human are immutable. People can change, and those changes--not just the accumulation of information--represent true learning.

You don't learn from experience; you learn from reflecting on experience.

You have to be confused," Dudley Herschbach, the Nobel Prize-winning chemist from Harvard, confessed, "before you can reach a new level of understanding anything." In many disciplines, especially

Read. The book is still the greatest manmade machine of all—not the car, not the TV, not the smartphone.

My act is very educational. I heard a man leaving the other night, saying: 'Well, that taught me a lesson.

I enjoy learning technical details.

A child in a Christian school class asked her teacher, "How could anybody create everything in six days from nothing?" Another very discerning young student blurted out, "But God is not just anybody !

Regarding kids who attended church, Beemer found that: Eighty-three percent said their science teachers taught them that the earth was millions or billions of years old.10 What this means is that the secular, atheistic world is being more effective at training the church kids than the Church! It is time to reverse this trend!

These attacks are focused on Genesis 1–11, including the Flood and Noah's ark — in state schools, secular media, and secular museums . . . and even in many churches and Christian schools! We need to be prepared for the secular claims so that we can be ready to give a defense for the hope that is in us for our Christian faith surrounding the Flood and Noah's ark (e.g., 2 Corinthians 10:4–511; 1 Peter 3:1512

They haven't eliminated religion from the public school. They have eliminated Christianity and have replaced it with an anti-God religion—humanism.

Evolution is a religion; it is not science!

The great thing about knowing stuff is that anyone can do it.

As a kid, I always assumed the know-it-alls on Jeopardy! were obviously the smartest people in America. If you were smart, that's how you showed it: by knowing all your state flowers and kings of Saxony. But what if Rob's right and that's a different, much shallower kind of intelligence? Is my mountain of flash cards all for naught?

Her only life ambition was to read every good book that had ever been published.

English is so past,' she said. 'Sure, we need people who can write about what we do, but they don't have to be English graduates. Theology graduates who don't believe any of it – that would be useful.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized.

Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.