Quotes About Education

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem.

The only sin in the world is ignorance.

The Society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.

under the tuition of the poets.

The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools." – Thucydides

Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.

Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.

Specifically, Kahan identified "scientific curiosity." That's different from scientific literacy. The two qualities are correlated, of course, but there are curious people who know rather little about science (yet), and highly trained people with little appetite to learn more.

Selalu ada sesuatu yang dapat dipelajari dari orang lain

el sistema no mercantil tiene la reconfortante ventaja de ocultar el hecho de que los pobres no reciben la misma calidad de educación que los ricos.

Calling a child rebellious has the equivalent effect of calling a child that is struggling in school stupid. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Temos demasiado pouca diversão na maioria da aprendizagem formal e as pessoas estão ansiosas por isso. Se não conseguimos inspirar curiosidade é provável que estejamos no caminho errado.

O poder do acesso a pedido à informação é a chave para a próxima geração de aprendizagem. Aqueles que se preocupam com a tecnologia e o futuro do trabalho devem estar atentos a isso, bem como aos pequenos trechos de vídeo, como mecanismo de aprendizagem preferido.

O processo de integração de novas tecnologias nos negócios e na sociedade está longe de ter terminado. Novas tecnologias estão a generalizar-se mais rapidamente do que podem ser aprendidas em qualquer escola. Entretanto, as vantagens das novas tecnologias para as empresas dependem muito da sua capacidade para formar a sua força de trabalho e mudar os fluxos de trabalho de acordo com as suas exigências.

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn — the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.

Most of the music teachers were less pleased, as I regularly corrected their factual errors while still managing to flunk their general exams.

knowledge is better than wonder

Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had been free from the taint of racial inequity, from racism, from whiteness. My racial identity had shaped me from the womb forward. I had not been in control of my own narrative. It wasn't just race that was a social construct. So was I.

And according to the most recent annual data from 2009, even when a black person has a college degree, he or she is nearly twice as likely as one of us with a degree to be unemployed, while Latinos and Asian Americans with degrees are 40 percent more likely than we are to be out of work, with the same qualifications.

Frederick Sullens, editor of the Jackson Daily News, predicted, "If a decision is made to send Negroes to school with white children, there will be bloodshed. The stains of that bloodshed will be on the Supreme Court steps."68

After all, how do you give a crash course in hatred to a boy who has only known love?

But as I'd learned my new trade at a deeper level, I'd discovered that I had not escaped the call to ministry as cleanly as I might have thought. I had not only followed my mother into the classroom but my father into the pulpit, never mind that I preached on weekdays instead of Sundays. There I was, pacing the lecture hall with chalk dust on my pants, day after day.

We are living textbooks on global warming and nuclear materials, crisscrosssed with interobjective calligraphy.

His curiosity aroused by seeing Sophia read the Bible, Douglass asked her to teach him. Naively, she agreed. He caught on rapidly, and Sophia was proud enough of her student to mention his progress to Hugh. He exploded. Literacy, he cried, would "spoil the best nigger in the world," and "unfit him to be a slave.