Quotes About Education

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It is important to remember that, in strictness, there is no such thing as an uneducated man.

During this lesson, teach them how to absorb knowledge as opposed to just memorizing. Teach them to become individual thinkers and not part of the majority that agrees with what is popular--afraid to stand alone in their thinking.

To learn is to broaden, to experience more, to snatch new aspects of life for yourself. To refuse to learn or to be relieved at not having to learn is to commit a form of suicide; in the long run, a more meaningful type of suicide than the mere ending of physical life. Knowledge is not only power; it is happiness, and being taught is the intellectual analog of being loved.

What do these children do without story books? Naftali asked. And Reb Zebulun replied: They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them. I couldn't live without them. Naftali said.

If I have learned anything in a lifetime spent overseeing schools, it is that childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.

Mislim da ste i vi uvideli kako je teško sagledati i najo?igledniju istinu, kako ?ovek, uopšte, sporo u?i i kako skupo pla?a to malo što u svom kratkom veku nau?i.

Nije najve?a budala onaj koji ne zna ?itati, nego onaj koji misli da je sve što pro?ita istina.

Geblendet vom Gefühl stolzer Kühnheit, mit dem das erste und unvollständige Wissen den jungen Menschen erfüllt, und begeistert von den Ideen vom Recht der Völker auf Freiheit und des Einzelmenschen auf Vergnügen und Würde, kamen diese Jünglinge aus den großen Städten, von den Gymnasien und Universitäten, auf denen sie lernten.

A MOTHER IS HER CHILDREN'S FIRST TEACHER. HER RELATIONSHIP WITH HER CHILDREN BEGINS WHEN THEY ARE IN THE WOMB.

The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one gaveyard to another.

Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.

A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument for tyranny which has yet been devised. Freedom of thought in the middle ages was combated by the Inquisition, but the modern method is far more effective.' (1923)

what a school was: a building designed to aid in gaining new knowledge, communicating it to others, and applying it in invention. This was a revelation. His creators needed

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.'   If

Roarke) Those who can't, teach. Isn't there some saying along those lines? (Eve) She gave him a blank look. If you can't do something, how the hell can you teach somebody else to do it?

Someone had painted FUK U on the dented trunk. What does it say about the literacy rate when you can even spell fuck. It's sad, Eve decided.

How do people know that stuff? Why do people know that stuff?" "Science," Peabody said. "You can't live without it.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. —HENRY ADAMS

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the Liberal Party shouting for elaborate new shelters, educational and medical facilities, training and rehabilitation centers, without actually detailing a plan for how such programs would be funded. The Conservative Party gleefully cut the budgets of what programs were already in place, then made staunch speeches on the quality of life and family. Still

Teaching was never a vocation for me. Certainly I never aspired to teach people how to live. I was what used to be called a scholar. I wrote books about dead people. That was where my heart was. I taught only to make a living.

The humanities the core of the university. She may be an outsider, but if she were asked to name the core of the university today, its core discipline, she would say it was moneymaking. That is how it looks from Melbourne, Victoria; and she would not be surprised if the same were the case in Johannesburg, South Africa.

No se le escapa la ironía, a saber, que el que va a enseñar aprende la lección más profunda, mientras que quienes van a aprender no aprenden nada.