Quotes About Education

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

Ayd?nlanma, insan?n kendi suçuyla düÅŸmüÅŸ olduÄŸu ergin olmama durumundan kurtulmas?d?r.

The march of mathematics is pursued on a broad and magnificent highway, which the latest posterity shall frequent without fear of danger or impediment.

Nu se poate înv??a filozofia; se poate înv??a doar filozofarea.

O ser humano é aquilo que a educação faz dele.

Nobody can claim himself to be practically proficient in a science and yet disdain its theory without revealing himself to be an ignoramus in his area.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Tan sólo por la educación puede el hombre llegar a ser hombre. El hombre no es más que lo que la educación hace de él (Immanuel Kant)

Triviality and certainty are Kinderkrankheiten of knowledge.

Knowledge becomes really such only when it is assimilated in the mind of the learner and shows in his character.

What is important is to try to develop insights and wisdom rather than mere knowledge, respect someone's character rather than his learning, and nurture men of character rather than mere talents.

We read history in order not to have to repeat it.

La ciencia es conocimiento organizado. La sabiduría es vida organizada

AparÈ›ineau acelei clase din marea burghezie francez? care prefera s?-È™i vad? copiii f?r? pâine, f?r? carne È™i aer decât f?r? diplome...

De tilhørte nemlig den klassen av det franske høyborgerskapet som heller vil se barna sine uten brød, kjøtt og luft enn uten eksamenspapirer.

a good education is precisely designed to correct the instincts of human nature.

Many Europeans see immigrants as they saw colonial subjects – as lower peoples who have to be assimilated by education – and assume that their civilization will be defined only on European terms.

So sickening was the spectacle that even the Nazis in the city were horrified, one proclaiming the massacre to be the work of "bestial machinery." Yet the Rape of Nanking remains an obscure incident. Unlike the atomic explosions in Japan or the Jewish holocaust in Europe, the horrors of the massacre at Nanking remain virtually unknown to people outside Asia. The massacre remains neglected in most of the historical literature published in the United States.

I suspect the study of English literature is doing you no good, it's full of all sorts of romantic high-flown nonsense. You've been reading Shelley. I plead guilty to that crime.

They had exhorted her to work hard, it need only be for a short time after all, at 'dull school subjects', such as English, French, History and Maths. Moy, who hated these with the possible exception of English, had decided some time ago that she would not work at these horrid subjects, would not take any of the beastly exams, and would leave school as soon as possible. She occasionally tried to communicate this decision to her family, but they simply refused to listen.

Still, everyone appeared to be extremely nice, except that that Dr Greenfield man was a trifle rebarbative. (This was a word which Toby had recently learnt at school and could not now conceive of doing without.)

Si por mi fuera, pillaria todos los libros que hay, haria una pila enorme con ellos y los quemaría todos. Los libros sólo sirven para que los listos farden acerca de toda la mierda que han leído. Todo lo que necesitas saber lo puedes sacar de la prensa y de la tele. Capullos pretenciosos. Ya les daré yo jodidos libros.

Then whit? - Git a job. Or git oan a scheme. - No gaunnae stey oan n take Highers? - Naw. - Ye should. You could go tae University. - Whit fir? Geoff had to think for a while. He had recently graduated with a degree in English Literature and was on the dole. So were most of his fellow graduates. - It's a good social life, he said.

Sin embargo, los fotógrafos no representaban el auténtico fondo del barril –ese honor recaía sobre los alumnos de comunicación visual y diseño gráfico (¿por qué pagaría alguien tanto dinero para obtener una licenciatura en diseño gráfico?)–, aunque les faltaba bien poquito. Y Jerry no era un tipo de la categoría fondo del barril.

think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.