Quotes About Education

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

ignorance and power, they´re a poor combination.

She didn't need a Taser; she was more than capable of defending herself without electricity. She'd had an unusual education.

I'm a librarian," he said.

The keepers of books had been the keepers of wisdom.

Quando menino, no mosteiro, as histórias tinham sido a riqueza de Lazlo. Ele era mais rico agora. Agora ele tinha livros.

It's about showing these kids that there are serious consequences for their actions.

For some of these kids, the fact that they make it to school every day is an accomplishment.

A person who used to do CA article-ship in year 2000 used to get Rs.1000 as stipend and in year 2022 the stipend is Rs.2000 only. But the value of Rs.1000 in year 1000 is much more than of Rs.2000 in year 2022. This is how students are exploited and that's way education system is fool making process and CA is worthless

One can always benefit from the culinary knowledge of others.

She was the smile that sent her three girls away to school every morning.

We know today about nutrition and we know about exercise. There's no reason for anybody to be sick and tired, fat and out of shape -- it's ridiculous! This has got to be taught in the schools. It's got to be taught in kindergarten. That's when kids should first get the idea that the most important thing in your life is your health and your body.

We need education, not bullets. That the only way we win. Not all these white men bad. We got to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. That the only way progress last.

Why can't bilingualism be seen as an extra resource? Is it because kids who can think in two languages are smarter? (from the book Attitude, 2002)

Without ever having met the Dharma, the Buddha's legacy to the world, and without having developed a good heart, everything we do can only be the cause of the lower realms. Our education is solely for this purpose. We go to kindergarten, primary school, high school and then college and university just to create the causes of the lower realms. I don't think I have ever put it this way before.

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99

The problem Creationists identify is with the word 'theory', not with the case for evolution

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

I say that our system of tests and grades, as it now exists, is one source of the low yield of great men from our universities. The marking system is a traumatic experience from which most students emerge with a deep determination never to get into a situation where they can be marked again. They just won't ever again take a chance.

I delight in the diffusion of learning; yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place; just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.

I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

You may be the only guy my age I've ever met who knows what bergamot is, much less that it's in Earl Grey tea." "Yes, well," Jace said, with a supercilious look, "I'm not like other guys. Besides," he added, flipping a book off the shelf, "at the Institute we have to take classes in basic medicinal uses for plants. It's required." "I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners." Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray.

Yes," Jace said, unable to help himself, "I was trained to be an evil mastermind from a young age. Pulling the wings off flies, poisoning the earth's water water supply - I was covering that stuff in kindergarten. I guess we're all just lucky my father faked his own death before he got to the raping and pillaging part of my education, or no one would be safe.