Quotes About Education

We were kept busy learn­ing. We had a mil­lion facts to re­mem­ber.

We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid.

Precious souls as young as three or four, raised on the misplaced multicultural priorities of Sesame Street," he claims, "are doomed before they even enter the godless morass of the public school system.

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn't know they were stupid.

Making others right redeems their paltry and pointless educations. Making others right makes them love you

You do know to put the condom on as soon as the penis is erect, don't you? -I paid a fortune for bananas out of season in case you need the practice. This is a trap. If I say, Oh yeah, I roll rubbers onto new dry erections all the time, I'll get the slut lecture from my father. But if I tell them, No, we'll get to spend Christmas Day practicing to protect me from fruit.

Todas las drogas cosméticas, dijo, todos los estabilizadores del ánimo y antidepresivos, solamente tratan los síntomas de los grandes problemas. Todas las adicciones, le contó, no eran más que formas de tratar un mismo problema. Las drogas, el exceso de comida, el alcohol o el sexo, todo era una simple forma de encontrar la paz. De escapar de lo que conocemos. De nuestra educación. Eran nuestro mordisco a la manzana.

La función de los programas concurso es que nos sintamos mejor cuando pensamos en todos esos datos aleatorios e inútiles que es lo único que nos queda de la educación que hemos recibido

Por qué hago nada? —dice—. Tengo suficiente educación como para disuadirme a mí misma de hacer cualquier cosa. Para deconstruir cualquier fantasía. Para convencerme de abandonar cualquier meta. Soy tan lista que puedo negarme cualquier sueño.

Grade school – elementary and up – is like being dropped in a dunk tank filled with starving piranha.   And they never get full.

Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote.

That was key, he long felt, to an informed society, one that cleaved to both empathy and critical thinking: access to information.

That was key, he long felt, to an informed society, one that cleaved to both empathy and critical thinking: access to information. Simply being able to know things—true things!—meant the world to him.

Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote. We have the program in other

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Historia magistra vitae est

What is sweeter than lettered ease?

Speaking Latin properly is indeed to be held in the highest regard – not just because of its own merits, but in fact because it has been neglected by the masses. For it is not so much Noble to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.

If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Uma casa sem livros é como um corpo sem alma

I believe that science is not simply a matter of exploring new horizons. One must also make the new knowledge readily available .. of such a pedagogical effort.

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

They must be plans for learning rather than plans for implementation.

Children need to do more than learn new skills. The theory of capabilities suggests they need to be challenged. They need to solve hard problems. They need to develop values. When you find yourself providing more and more experiences that are not giving children an opportunity to be deeply engaged, you are not equipping them with the processes they need to succeed in the future.