Quotes About Education

perhaps it is less important that a teacher cover the allotted amount of the curriculum, or use the most approved audio-visual devices, than that he be congruent, real, in his relation to his students.

When I try to teach, as I do sometimes, I am appalled by the results, which seem a little more than inconsequential, because sometimes the teaching appears to succeed. When this happens I find that the results are damaging. It seems to cause the individual to distrust his own experience, and to stifle significant learning. Hence I have come to feel that the outcomes of teaching are either unimportant or hurtful.

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make one quest: liberty and justice for all. Whether one's special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in the history.

The library is the temple of learning and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

this midlevel cultural-capital audience is not as far from the average white pop critic as we might have expected. We usually make middling incomes or worse, and while most have university degrees, our expertise is usually more self-taught than PhD-certified, a pattern believed would produce an anxious, fact-hoarding intellectual style in contrast with the relaxed mastery of a fully legitimated cultural elite.

When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

The child is not a citizen of the future; he (sic) is a citizen from the very first moment of life and also the most important citizen because he represents and brings the 'possible'...a bearer, here and now of rights, of values, of culture...It is our hiostorical responsibility not only to affirm this but the create cultural, social, political and educational contexts which are able to receive children and dialogue with their potential for constructing human rights.

What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.

Ma non sa lei che cosa è il "De Officiis"?» chiese improvvisamente a Gigi, e come in un tono di rimprovero. Gigi, ora, tagliuzzava una gomma con la punta del temperino: levò il viso, atteggiandolo a profondo interesse. «Ma è la grande Etica della latinità!» proclamò Frugoni entusiasta, con voce piena, potente.

Il mondo è un bel libro, ma poco serve a chi non lo sa leggere.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

Ma cosa importava se non era autorizzato? Le faceva benissimo: ma doveva agire di nascosto, perché l'Italia è il paese dei diplomi, delle lauree, della cultura ridotta soltanto al procacciamento e alla spasmodica difesa dell'impiego.

We not only learn, but we also learn to gradually change our conceptual framework and to adapt it to what we learn.

A university student attending lectures on general relativity i the morning and others on quantum mechanics in the afternoon might be forgiven for thinking that his professors are fools, or have neglected to communicate with each other for at least a century.

I chose as my supervisor a professor who allowed me to continue to study what I wanted.

I periodi di vacanza sono quelli in cui si studia meglio, perché non si è distratti dalla scuola.

Albert Einstein gençli?inde bir y?l?n? aylakl?k ederek geçirdi. Bo?a zaman geçirmeden bir yere var?lmaz ama anne babalar? ne yaz?k ki bunu genellikle unutur. .. Albert, Kant okuyor, bo? zamanlar?nda Pavia Üniversitesi'nde derslere giriyordu; ne kay?t olmu?tu ne de s?navlara giriyordu, bunu zevk için yap?yordu. Gerçek biliminsan? ancak böyle olunur.

Albert [Einstein] was reading Kant and attending occasional lectures at the University of Pavia: for pleasure, without being registered there or having to think about exams. It is thus that serious scientists are made.