Quotes About Education

Nelle scuole abbiamo […] l'immobilità dello spirito obbligato a ripetere invece che a cercare.

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

El problema es que el niño es una esponja que registra y absorbe indiscriminadamente todo lo que ve [...] El niño formado en la imagen se reduce a ser un hombre que no lee , y, por lo tanto, la mayoría de las veces, es un ser «reblandecido por la televisión», adicto de por vida a los videojuegos.

Es cierto que la televisión, a diferencia de los instrumentos de comunicación que la han precedido (hasta la radio), destruye más saber y más entendimiento del que transmite.

Alle volte, la cultura è più un male che un bene

Mais l'endoctrinement en bas age peut marquer un individu à vie: "ces écoles mettent les enfants face à un seul schéma de pensée, en réduisant au minimum leur vision du monde.on leur apprend que rien n'existe en dehors du bien et du mal, toute nuance est effacée", précise le docteur chérif.

Se você é jovem, inteligente e se interessa por política, pense bem antes de estudar ciências políticas na universidade. Você deveria se interessar, em vez disso, em estudar matemática ou física. Num segundo momento você poderá entrar na política e terá conhecimentos mais úteis, com aplicações infinitas [...] Pode-se sempre ler livros de história mais tarde, mas não é possível aprender matemática na hora que se quer.

Sleep is the price we pay for learning

John MacKechnie's Gaelic Without Groans

To write is to educate and to entertain. Never to exclude.

The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's got to teach.

The best way to be prolife is to deliver people from the causes of abortions. See to it that potential mothers will have help raising their children or giving them a family through adoption. Make it possible for people to raise their babies and not to have to drop out of school, not to have to give up on a future. Help them have confidence that they can cope.

The responsibility to educate the next generation should be solemn. Unlike, say, the obligation to incarcerate people who have inhaled the smoke of the burning leaves of an illegal plant.

It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards.

We have an issue with kids' having unfettered access to the worst the Internet has to offer instead of the best that our communities can provide.

We spend more per pupil than any other country, but among industrialized nations, American students rank near the bottom in science and math. Only 13 percent of high school seniors know what high school seniors should know about American history.

Critics of home-schooling hate the idea of home-schooling and the freedom from the government school monopoly that it represents. Their attacks on academic success are just a transparent attempt to divert attention from their own failings.

Local control worked well enough to make America's education system the envy of the world at one time. We started losing that advantage when local school districts started losing their autonomy. As Greene puts it, "The policies, practices, and funding of schools has increasingly shifted to the state and national governments and greater uniformity has been imposed by unionization. The enemy of high standards and improving outcomes is centralization.

Union leaders essentially want the public to believe that all teachers are equal and deserve to be paid and treated that way—but that's clearly not the case. Some teachers are much more effective than others in helping kids learn, yet school policies and pay scales do little to recognize or reward their efforts.

late 2011, the U.S. Department of Education made a historic change to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act to allow schools to release student records to third-party organizations without parental consent.

It is time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy. It's a bureaucratic system where everyone's role is spelled out in advance, and there are few incentives for innovation or productivity. It's not a surprise when a school system doesn't improve. It more resembles a communist economy than our own market economy.

It must be frustrating for decent parents to watch their children fall under the influence of radical educators, and sometimes make foolish decisions based on the predominant cultures in their schools. But no one should be surprised it happens—far too many educators are moral relativists who reject the notion of absolute right or wrong.

Oh no, no, a state that adopts Common Core must adopt in its totality the Common Core and can only add 15 percent." It was then that I realized that this initiative, which had been constantly portrayed as state led and voluntary, was really about control.