Quotes About Education

Are we still lecturing—which, as the writer George Leonard observed, is the "best way to get information from teacher's notebook to student's notebook without touching the student's mind"?

I sort of wish they had invented hooky by now," said Brandon M.

You have a college degree? You can barely talk.

wouldn't you like to make sure all those millions you give to Uncle Sam went to schools and hospitals instead of nuclear warheads?' As a matter of fact, he would. Playgrounds for big kids, preschool programs to little ones, and mandatory LASIK surgery for NFL refs.

And no matter what anybody says, I don't believe all this trouble started when women got the vote. As far as I'm concerned, it goddamn well got started when you taught each other how to read.

It was a bitch living with your old English teacher, especially when your old English teacher wasn't old at all, and he had exactly the kind of body that most appealed to her, tall and lean, broad in the shoulder, narrow at the hip. Then there was his brain. It had taken her a lot of years to find that particular part of a man appealing, but she'd finally gotten in the habit, and she couldn't seem to give it up.

What the hell did magic wands have to do with helping girls learn math and science? He'd been good at both. He could have helped them with math and science. Weren't these girls supposed to be building skills? Screw magic wands. He'd have handed out some fucking calculators.

All of women's aspirations – whether for education, work or any form of self-determination – ultimately rest on their ability to decide whether and when to bear children.

I'm certain indeed, I think there's no doubt of it - that reading does young people much harm. It puts things into their heads that never would have been there but for books. I declare, I think reading's a very dangerous thing; I'm certain all Mary's bad health is entirely owing to reading. You know we always thought she read a great deal too much for her own good.

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.

It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.

But there is yet another prejudice that dyslexics, and those who try to help them, have to combat. This is the deep-rooted idea that all learning, all education, any expression of ideas, must be done through language, through words. The idea that is possible to learn and communicate visually, through colour and shape, seems to be heresy, though it is one that naturally occurs to dyslexics.

When Society allows a dyslexic to sink, through ignorance or prejudice, it is not only the dyslexic who loses.

It is surely true that few people like to consider themselves enemies of thought and culture. Bush, after all, called himself the "education president" with a straight face while simultaneously declaring, without a trace of self-consciousness or self-criticism, that he rarely read newspapers because that would expose him to "opinions.

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you ever thought that you are not getting enough out of your digital camera, you are probably right. Many owners of new digital cameras are unaware of what their cameras are capable of doing and it's not really their fault. The fact is that all of these new-fangled cameras hit the market with a glut of expressions being used that baffled the consumer who was hungry to try out new technology. I did three years at photographic college in the early seventies and the difference between the

That was half the problem with kids these days. No responsibility.

School gave me wings to leave rural Pennsylvania for Philadelphia, and my diploma gave me wings to Manhattan.

The tea table at 22 Hyde Park Gate provided an informal education in diversity for the young Virginia Stephen. Not only did she encounter the "great men" of the Victorian and Edwardian eras—Symonds, Watts, Meredith, Lowell, James—who were family friends, but she listened too while

Clearly the students had been learning about racism—far away, and in another country

The nation must achieve a coherent and widely accepted national narrative. Here language is front and center. ... Narratives start with words and are reinforced by symbols. ... Narratives are transported through education.

Before you can learn anything else, your teachers must have taught you that your voice matters.

As Cummings pointed out when the museum opened in 2014, there are more Holocaust museums in the United States than in Israel, Germany, and Poland combined, but not one devoted to slavery.