Quotes About Education

Books taught me how to think.

Ah, the Dewey decimal system…humankind's single greatest achievement." From Candace Fleming's The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School

Can anybody point me to that one time in history where the side that was demanding censorship, segregation, propaganda, radical education, papers to move freely in society, plus government forces going door to door to demand compliance were the good guys?

In Garfield's experience, education was salvation. It had freed him from grinding poverty. It had shaped his mind, forged paths, created opportunities where once there had been none. Education, he knew, led to progress, and progress was his country's only hope of escaping its own painful past. In

during his first year at the Eclectic that, by his second year, the school had promoted him from janitor to assistant professor.

A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society…It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them and a force in urging them.

The test and use of a man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

In America I have seen the freest and best educated of men in circumstances the happiest to be found in the world, yet it seemed to me that a cloud habitually hung on their brow, and they seemed serious and almost sad even in their pleasures.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

However, we must not forget that it will be some twenty years before the ordinary run of people begin to think the thoughts of the educated person of today.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

A child certainly allows himself to be impressed by the grand talk of his parents," wrote Jung "but do they really imagine he is educated by it? Actually it is the parents' lives that educate the child – what they add by word at best serves only to confuse him.

As long as there are parents preparing children for little more than incarceration, we'll have no trouble keeping our prisons full.

Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out." —Karl A. Menninger

Intuition is a gift we all have, whereas retention of knowledge is a skill.

In Mr. Kaye's crazy arms race, would we someday judge schools by comparing the ratio of armed students to armed teachers?

We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness.

Every child starts out loving animals, identifying with them. But early on, adults start sending them contradictory messages. They'll give a kid a stuffed animal to hug and love and sleep with. But at the same time, they're serving them animals for dinner every night. It's crazy, if you think about it. But when you're young, you just accept what grown-ups tell you as the truth.

But early on, adults start sending them contradictory. They'll give a kid a stuffed animal to hug and love and sleep with at the same time, they're serving them animals for dinner every night you think about it. But when you're young, you just accept what they tell you as the truth.

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.