Quotes About Education

Every scientist should, after all, regard it as his duty to tell the public, in a generally intelligible way, about what he is doing

Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophical life as well as his intellectual life, and at the end of school, like Turing, Zuse found himself to be something of an outsider—to the disappointment of his very conventional parents, he no longer believed in God or religion. (Jane Smiley (2010). The Man Who Invented the Computer)

I'm sick of the ignorance that lack of funding has generated, of the fathers who apporach me at dinner parties with their four-year-old girls clasped to their pant legs and say, "Yeah, but studies say kids can buy drugs more easily than they can buy alcohol." To which I always respond, "I guess that means you keep heroin in your liquor cabinet?

So apparently all homeschooled kids spoke like pretentious liberal arts college students.

To memorize something, it's best to write it down.

There is massive evidence that self-selected reading, or reading what you want to read, is responsible for most of our literacy development. Readers have better reading ability, know more vocabulary, write better, spell better, and have better control of complex grammatical constructions. In fact, it is impossible to develop high levels of literacy without being a dedicated reader, and dedicated readers rarely have serious problems in reading and writing.

Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.

We have to be educated by the other. My heart cannot be educated by myself. It can only come out of a relationship with others. And if we accept being educated by others, to let them explain to us what happens to them, and to let yourself be immersed in their world so that they can get into our world, then you begin to share something very deep. You will never be the person in front of you, but you will have created what we call communion.

And it is in the whole educational system, that we must educate people to become capable and to take their place in society. That has value, obviously. But it's not quite the same thing as to educate people to relate, to listen, to help people to become themselves.

His child was now officially smarter than he was, and he didn't like it.

No one acknowledged that she was the one who supported them because a teacher's salary would not cover the cost of living in California

Adopt a Brownie Troop. Memoir classes. Field trips and blood drives.

Rosie and I went to Planned Parenthood together. "They'll have all kinds of information," she said. "It's not just for abortions.

How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - went unarmed and were taught nothing of fighting, while the strong were trained to the highest reaches of their skill.

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

Elsa knew that a library card—a thing they'd taken for granted all of their lives—meant there was still a future.

the failing of a student to learn is the failing of the teacher to teach.

Uno mira hacia atrás con agradecimiento a los maestros brillantes, pero con gratitud a aquellos que tocaron nuestros sentimientos humanos. El plan de estudios es tanto la materia prima necesaria, pero el calor es el elemento vital de la planta en crecimiento y para el alma del niño

I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I know is that anyone who wants to learn will learn. And maybe a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat.

I have come to feel that the only learning which significantly influences behavior is self-discovered, self-appropriated learning.

It seems to me that anything that can be taught to another is relatively inconsequential, and has little or no significant influence on behavior.

group of us felt that ideas were being fed to us, whereas we wished primarily to explore our own questions and doubts, and find out where they led.