Quotes About Education

Ralph Nimmo carecía de título universitario y se enorgullecía de ello. -Un título [...] es el primer paso de un recorrido calamitoso. Como no quieres desperdiciarlo, pasas al trabajo de graduado y a la investigación doctoral. Terminas por ser un absoluto ignorante de todo, excepto en tu estrechísima especialidad.

Para un profesor, lo lógico es que el escondrijo elegido sea una Universidad

We are gaining the knowledge; science is giving us that. Now we need wisdom as well.

You are now too old to be made a scholar after my fashion, but you are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you already can.

podemos afirmar que hacia 350 a.C. ningún científico dudaba ya de que la Tierra fuese una esfera. Desde entonces, este concepto ha sido admitido en todo momento por cualquier hombre culto del mundo occidental.

Podríamos haberle mostrado este… fallo parcial del plan antes y ahorrarle el impacto que siente en este momento, pero no habría comprendido su significado adecuadamente, como sucederá ahora.

Yo intento enseñar porque, consiga o no instruir a otros, consigo infaliblemente instruirme a mí mismo.

It's out of fashion in these decaying times to be a scholar.

That's another trouble with education as we now have it. People think of education as something that they can finish.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Si el conocimiento puede crear problemas, no es con la ignorancia con lo que podremos resolverlo (Isaac Asimov)

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Ignorance is the root of all evil.

Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise my thoughts, to do research, to read and listen, to seek alternatives, to resolve old problems with new solutions, to argue logically. Above all, she taught me not to believe anything blindly, to doubt, and to question even what seemed irrefutably true, such as man's superiority over woman, or one race or social class over another.

No hay feminismo sin independencia económica. Eso lo vi claramente en mi infancia con la situación de mi madre. Las mujeres necesitamos disponer de ingresos propios y manejarlos, para eso se requiere educación, capacitación y un ambiente laboral y familiar adecuado.

I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

They taught using an Italian system of experimental education in which the students did whatever the fuck we wanted.

The elderly are the most entertaining people in the world," she eventually told Irina. "They have lived a lot, say whatever they like, and couldn't care less about other people's opinion. You'll never get bored here. Our residents are well educated, and if they're in good health they keep on learning and experimenting. This community stimulates them and they can avoid the worst scourge of old age: loneliness." Irina

My work in the nomadic school proved what Miss Taylor had always maintained: Teaching is learning.

Free, public, compulsory education, public health for all, and one of the most advanced social security systems on the continent favored the strengthening of a vast educated and politicized middle class, as well as a proletariat with class awareness. Unions were formed, along with centers for workers, employees, and students. Women gained the vote, and electoral processes were perfected. (An election in Chile is as civilized as tea time in London's Savoy Hotel.

Se había alejado de la acción y había acabado encerrado en su mundo académico, lejos de la dura realidad de los pobres en América Latina.

La teoría de que la infancia debe ser un período de inocencia plácida no existía entonces, ése fue un invento posterior de los norteamericanos, antes se esperaba que la vida fuera dura y para eso nos templaban los nervios. Los métodos didácticos se fundamentaban en la resistencia: mientras más pruebas inhumanas superaba un crío, mejor preparado estaba para los albures de la edad adulta.

Puedo anotar mis recuerdos y pensamientos con tinta y papel gracias al clérigo González de Marmolejo, quien se dio tiempo, entre su trabajo de evangelizar salvajes y consolar cristianos, para enseñarme a leer. Entonces era capellán, pero llegó a ser el primer obispo de Chile y también el hombre más rico de este reino, como contaré más adelante.

No hay feminismo sin independencia económica. Eso lo vi claramente en mi infancia con la situación de mi madre. Las mujeres necesitamos disponer de ingresos propios y manejarlos, para eso se requiere educación, capacitación y un ambiente laboral y familiar adecuado. No siempre es el caso.

he was not in favor of their acquiring any additional learning, for fear they would fill their minds with ideas unsuited to their station and condition.