Quotes About Education

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

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Books matter because kids matter and books make our kids better than we are.

I want them to know that banning a book is like banning a hug and THAT is a dismal storm no child should be left behind in

The most reliable predictor of whether students liked a course, it turned out, was their answer to the question ''Did the professor respect you?

he was actually a key person in Halabi's orbit. His educational background is in physics but he seems to be knowledgeable in pretty much anything relating to technology.

All children in every school deserve an education that inspires curiosity, encourages creativity, requires critical thinking, urges collaboration, and nurtures compassion.

A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.

Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.

God makes you "see troubles." Sometimes, as part of your education being carried out, you must "go down to the depths of the earth" (Ps. 63:9), travel subterranean passages, and lie buried among the dead. But not for even one moment is the bond of fellowship and oneness between God and you strained to the point of breaking. And ultimately, from the depths, He "will restore [your] life again.

I used my brains to outsmart teachers—and that wasn't very smart at all.

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.

My father was, I suppose, a crank. He had a fine, precise mind which ignored what it was not interested in. Without being a misanthrope he was unsociable and non-conforming. He had his own unorthodox theories of education, one of which was that I should not be sent to school.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.

Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism.

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university.... This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.