Quotes About Education

I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.

In many towns, the library is the only place you can browse through physical books.

Szabo reckoned that the future of libraries was a combination of a people's university, a community hub, and an information base, happily partnered with the Internet rather than in competition with it. In practical terms, Szabo felt the library should begin offering classes and voter registration and literacy programs and story times and speaker series and homeless outreach and business services and computer access and movie rentals and e-book loans and a nice gift shop. Also, books.

A Nigerian librarian told me that her library offers art and entrepreneurship training classes

grew up in libraries

Szabo frequently preaches the gospel of the library as the people's university.

air force bases, where libraries are revered.

It seems simple to define what a library is—namely, it is a storeroom of books.

a library is an intricate machine, a contraption of whirring gears.

The library might have been the first place I was ever given autonomy.

This was in the early 1990s, the moment when Internet service providers were introduced to the general public, and for the first time in history, the status of libraries as the only and best storehouses of information was challenged. Szabo received his library degree just as people were beginning to wonder whether libraries were viable or even necessary in the newly wired world.

Four out of the five Nobel Prize laureates in Physics and Chemistry that year were from countries other than the United States. Americans were terrified that the country was falling behind in math and science, so nationwide there was a renewed commitment to education, especially in those fields.

Books are a sort of cultural DNA, the code for who, as a society, we are, and what we know.

Quoting a letter by Charles F. Lummis]: books are the last things that any human being can afford to do without.

Encyclopedias?" he asked George. "So damn heavy.

books are the last things that any human being can afford to do without.

Public libraries in the United States outnumber McDonald's; they outnumber retail bookstores two to one.

No parent/home/child/teacher/school has an all-round 100 percent wholeness. We all have limitations and problems. But I must never think it is all or nothing. Perhaps I'd like to live in the country, but I don't. Well, maybe I can get the family to a park two times a week, and out to the country once every two weeks. Maybe I have to send my child to a not-so-good school. Well, maybe we can read one or two good books together aloud. If you can't give them everything, give them something.

It does not mean that adults think of a child as a blank sheet of paper on which they imprint their ideas, impressions, and knowledge. Neither does it mean leaving the child unattended like a weed growing in a sidewalk. It is a balanced understanding of education as the provision of possibilities for a person to build relationships with a vast number of things and thoughts.

A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.

let's think about why you need a grammar book at all.

What the world calls failure, I call learning.

In a special file cabinet drawer or dedicated file box, keep six file folders for each high-school student. Label them: Course Descriptions Books Read Papers Written Recommendations Extracurricular Activities Other

people want children to be creative before they have any knowledge or skill to be creative with.