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Quotes About Education

Going to school, it felt like you were in a meat grinder. It chews you up and pours out this mess that can't function.
~ Gerard Way
Knowledge is the antidote to fear.
~ Gerd Gigerenzer
cognitive illusions are difficult to overcome. That is why education of the public is doomed to fail and paternalistic strategies to maneuver people into doing the "right" things are the only viable alternative.
~ Gerd Gigerenzer
Rational argument does not always win over old-brain fear, particularly if one spouse tries to educate the other. Yet there is a simple rule of thumb that could have helped that professor: If reason conflicts with a strong emotion, don't try to argue. Enlist a conflicting and stronger emotion. One
~ Gerd Gigerenzer
Wenn man mündige Bürger haben will, muss man ihnen drei Dinge beibringen: Lesen, Schreiben und – statistisches Denken.
~ Gerd Gigerenzer
Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation.
~ Gerda Lerner
The system of patriarchy can function only with the cooperation of women. This cooperation is secured by a variety of means: gender indoctrination; educational deprivation; the denial to women of knowledge of their history; the dividing of women, one from the other, by defining "respectability
~ Gerda Lerner
It is agreed that little girls should have a different physical education than little boys, but it is not admitted how much of the difference is counseled by the conviction that little girls should not look like little boys.
~ Germaine Greer
Those who get lost on the way to school will never find their way through life
~ German proverb
Necessity teaches all things
~ German proverb
He who teaches children learns more than they do.
~ German proverb
See if she can stick her own straw in a Capri Sun (this should be on state testing).
~ Gerry Brooks
Very likely education does not make very much difference.
~ Gertrude Stein
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
~ Gertrude Stein
Heart and head are the constituent parts of character temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.
~ Giacomo Casanova
The errors caused by temperament are not to be corrected, because our temperament is perfectly independent of our strength: it is not the case with our character. Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved. I
~ Giacomo Casanova
Nequicquam sapit qui sibi non sapit. (He knows nothing who does not profit from what he knows.)
~ Giacomo Casanova
Il più certo modo di celare agli altri i confini del proprio sapere, è di non trapassarli.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
Le moyen le plus sûr de cacher aux autres les limites de son savoir est de ne jamais les dépasser.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home.
~ Giada De Laurentiis
If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won't go in there. That's why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.
~ Giada De Laurentiis
It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too.
~ Giada De Laurentiis
195 This same axiom with its preceding postulate should make it clear to us that for a long period of time the impious races of the three children of Noah, having lapsed into a state of bestiality, went wandering like wild beasts until they were scattered and dispersed through the great forest of the earth, and that with their bestial education giants had sprung up and existed among them at the time when the heavens thundered for the first time after the flood [369ff].
~ Giambattista Vico
Vorrei che tutti leggessero, non per diventare letterati o poeti, ma perché nessuno sia più schiavo.
~ Gianni Rodari