Quotes About Education

Es una equivocación educar a los niños tan sólo en el ambiente familiar, rodeados de cariño afectuoso, sin hacerles saber que al otro lado de los seguros muros de su hogar hay un mundo de hombres impíos, deshonestos y amorales, y que tales hombres constituyen la mayoría.

Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.

However, just because it's an institution of higher learning offering the course doesn't mean it's automatically free from bias and veiled sales pitches.

Minors Act (UTMA) or Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (UGMA) are one way that parents can earmark funds for their children's education. Often gifts of cash for a child's birthdays and other special occasions end up in this account, and it grows over time.

Don't invest in things you don't understand.

You can invest in both a Coverdell ESA and a 529 plan at the same time. You're allowed to change the beneficiary to another family member. Finally, unlike an UGMA or UTMA Custodial account, you retain complete control of the assets.

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now.

while I was still at Oxford.

For a mind to even approach its full potential, it needs cultivation by other minds.

experience isn't merely the best teacher; it's the only teacher.

Playtime's over, Jax," she says. "Time to do your homework.

I have given a version of that first lecture I saw, during which I opened the casing of my own arm and directed my students' attention to the rods that contracted and extended when I wiggled my fingers.

Moseby explained to Jijingi how each sound a person spoke could be indicated with a different mark on the paper. The marks were arranged in rows like plants in a field; you looked at the marks as if you were walking down a row, made the sound each mark indicated, and you would find yourself speaking what the original person had said. Moseby showed him how to make each of the different marks on a sheet of paper, using a tiny wooden rod that had a core of soot.

Based on our experience with human minds, it takes at least twenty years of steady effort to produce a useful person, and I see no reason that teaching an artificial being would go any faster.

teaching him, as best she can, the business of living.

she has to get on with the job in front of her now: teaching him, as best she can, the business of living.

It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.

There are a lot of advantages to being self-taught. Quality of instruction is not one of them.

The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapés of knowledge and never had their fill.

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

schools as we know them appear designed at every level to sabotage the supposed goals of education.

Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.

A degree in art doesn't automatically make you an artist any more than lacking a degree precludes you from becoming an artist.