Quotes About Education

I am a 10th class pass in Hindi. From 7th grade to 12th grade, I was in Delhi; before that, I was abroad. I came in not knowing a word of Hindi in 7th grade and learned Hindi and passed the exam in 10th. I think I was north of 50 percent, so I feel very proud of that accomplishment.

I often joke with my husband and say to him, 'You know I have two theatre degrees, right? That's all I know how to do.' LOL! He went to Pepperdine Law School, has four degrees, and passed the California Bar first time around, so I always make sure he doesn't expect too much from me.

I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.

Each day that passes without kids being able to go to school is an enormous burden on the future.

I was a procrastinator and a bookworm but I passed all my School Certificate exams, the equivalent of O-levels; I got three distinctions, three honours and three good passes.

I tried without much success to learn a little of the humanities and the arts, but even passing the courses in art history and music history was a challenge.

We Americans have an obligation to come to China, to learn more about China. Why? Because with each passing day, it's going to be more and more in our future.

C is a passing grade. You don't need straight A's to be a scientist, despite what you may have heard.

Just passing laws saying you are not allowed to be racist won't work. You need an educational system in place.

do not the bewitching power of all studies lie in that they continually open up to us new, unsuspected horizons, not yet understood, which entice us to proceed further and further in the penetration of what appears at first sight only in vague outline?

We've spent a half-century believing that people should become computer literate. That's precisely backward. Computing should become human literate.

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

The secret of his success is that he never went to business school. Imagina all the lessons he never had to unlearn.

We will never transform the prevailing system of management without transforming our prevailing system of education. They are the same system.

taking in information is only distantly related to real learning. It would be nonsensical to say, "I just read a great book about bicycle riding—I've now learned that.

she's teaching me to read to be blind sighted.

Our musicians in residence carry this belief into the classroom. They don't think of children's self-esteem as so fragile that it will be shattered by the suggestion that the child guessed wrong or jumped to an invalid conclusion. They make corrections matter-of-factly, with no feeling that a chid is a failure because she has made an error, but with ocnfidence that the feedback will help the child learn and be accurate the next time.

This will be so much better," Miss Jean Bauer says with her hand on my shoulder. "Caroline will be able to start school in a month and a half and get back to having a regular education like any child here in Oregon." "Yes,

The teacher is a catalyst to convert information from a high energy state (list of facts) to a low energy state (visual concept associated with known concepts).

I'm gonna take all my sadness, frustration, anger and energy and channel it into becoming the best possible student. I am going to become a learning machine... Go ahead, go to all your parties. Go ahead and go home to your families and friends every weekend. You are probably smarter than me. But it doesn't matter. While you are goofing around, I'm gonna be studying, and I'm gonna catch you.

Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life. Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too

School should be about improving a kid's life, about encouraging him to think new thoughts, about giving him new abilities, or about coming up with new ambitions." - Roger Schank.

Flash cards are like legal anabolic steroids for learning with no negative side effects.

Train your brain to gain.