Quotes About Education

Lawyers, I suppose were once children.

Beware the man of one book. He sleeps in his armour.

he who has trembled before the pedagogue's rod will not face the spear willingly.

Someone has said, Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance. I agree.

Someone has said,"Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance."..No one has a corner on wisdom. All the name-dropping in the world does not heighten the significance of our character. If anything, it reduces it. Our acute need is to cultivate a willingness to learn and to remain teachable.

I was always a killer. It was my skill, and they'd taught me well. She taught me love.

Chesnutt had spent most of his childhood in North Carolina and at the age of fourteen he had become a pupil-teacher at the Howard School, Fayetteville, one of many institutions founded for black students by the Freedmen's Bureau during the Reconstruction era.

Remember, human capital embodies not only classroom training but also perseverance, honesty, creativity—virtues that lend themselves to finding work.) Some

Their eagerness to learn was replaced by a bizarre and erroneous notion that education is somehow a competition, not a process whereby a person becomes more capable and complete. There is even a term for the elite high school students most consumed by this phenomenon: "crispies"—because they have burned out. On

If average students are increasingly getting the highest possible grade, how can employers and graduate schools identify the truly exceptional

The finest studies are like the finest of anything else: They cost big bucks.

others are accepted at a highly selective school but choose to attend a less selective college or university instead.

we have a treatment group (those students who attended highly selective colleges and universities) and a nonequivalent control group (those students who were talented enough to be accepted by such a school but opted to attend a less selective institution instead).

Students who attended more selective colleges earned roughly the same as students of seemingly similar ability who attended less selective schools.

the title of this chapter, "Recognize that your own motivation, ambition, and talents will determine your success more than the college name on your diploma.

Recognize that your own motivation, ambition, and talents will determine your success more than the college name on your diploma."8

I have always had an uncomfortable relationship with math. I don't like numbers for the sake of numbers. I am not impressed by fancy formulas that have no real-world application. I particularly disliked high school calculus for the simple reason that no one ever bothered to tell me why I needed to learn it. What is the area beneath a parabola? Who cares?

Several of the high schools consistently at the top of the rankings are selective enrollment schools, meaning that students must apply to get in, and only a small proportion of those students are accepted.

So let's summarize: (1) these schools are being recognized as "excellent" for having students with high test scores; (2) to get into such a school, one must have high test scores. This is the logical equivalent of giving an award to the basketball team for doing such an excellent job of producing tall students.

The one social factor that researchers agree is consistently linked to longer lives in every country where it has been studied is education. It is more important than race; it obliterates any effects of income."4

But it's not perfect. The GPA does not reflect the difficulty of the courses that different students may have taken.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.

The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.

A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.