Quotes About Education

One of the problems, it seems to me, is that we have got it into our heads that books should be hard work, and that unless they're hard work, they're not doing us any good.

What a terrible thing an education was, he thought, if it produced the kind of mind that despised entertainment and the people who valued it. Edith

Don't you like it [i.e. school]?... No. I hate it. Why? It doesn't suit me. I'm not a school sort of person. I'm the wrong personality type.

and predictions. Science is often presented as 'the facts', frequently in

Knowledge is more virtue than power.

Why is it that there was always a unit on history, math, science and god knows what other useless, totally forgettable information you taught those seventh graders year after year, but never any unit on death? No exercises, no workbooks, no final exams on the only subject that matters?

I looked at the map of India on the wall. Every 14-year-old should know the exact location of Calcutta. It wouldn't do to go around without the faintest clue of where Calcutta was.

Knowledge doth come of learning well retained, Unfruitful else

By studying the masters and not their pupils.

It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics one should study the masters and not the pupils.

Deng Xiaoping went on with his efforts to normalize life in China and implement the Four Modernizations Program. Entrance examinations for universities and colleges were reinstituted.

Sometimes, teachers must be hard. People must be given a hard message because life is hard, and dying is hard

It is called education because it is learned. You do not have to have had an experience in order to sympathize or empathize with the subject. That is why books are written: so that we do not have to do the same things. We learn from experience, true; but we also learn from empathy." A Theory of Patience

I'm told by my young friends that experience is much more important than books. Of course Ben Franklin had something to say about experience and fools, but even Franklin thought that a fool would learn by his experience. That has proven false in the modern world. Some people are simply unwilling to learn under any circumstances, which maybe, even then, wouldn't be so bad if they weren't so damned proud of it.

Of all things I liked books best.

Of all things I liked books the best.

But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.

our world has a growing need for people trained in profound degrees of doubt, more so than for people skilled at handling certainties.

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were

Podría aprender más? ¿Cuánto era posible aprender? ''¿Cómo sera —se preguntó— aprender todo lo que puede enseñarse?

Un libro se puede quemar o perder, pero, cuando uno se lo aprende, el libro ya forma parte de su persona y los conocimientos duran tanto como él.

Si nunca has estudiado filosofía, ¿cómo puedes rechazarla? La ciencia y la medicina se ocupan del cuerpo, mientras la filosofía trata de la mente y del alma, tan necesarias para un médico como la comida y el aire.

Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country.