Quotes About Education

for in this poignant personal study there lurks a general lesson; the wayward child, the egotistic mother, the panting maniac—these are not only vivid characters in a unique story: they warn us of dangerous trends; they point out potent evils. "Lolita" should make all of us—parents, social workers, educators—apply ourselves with still greater vigilance and vision to the task of bringing up a better generation in a safer world.

Only that saner selfishness, which Education teaches men, can find the rights of all in the whirl of work.

Once you learn how to learn, you have only to discover what is worth learning. Summarized

We will become better learners and more independent thinkers.

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, and adjustment which forms the secret of civilisation.

affirmative action's weakness and vulnerability cooperate with, and perhaps unintentionally legitimate, a meritocracy that privileges test scores over other indicators of student potential in the first place.

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

What did Mira show your attacker last week? he asked, desperate to turn the attention away from himself now. Yakut shrugged. Only he can know. The girl has no knowledge of what her eyes reflect. Thank God for that. Niko hated to think of the education she might have just gotten otherwise.

The girl has no knowledge of what her eyes reflect." Thank God for that. Niko hated to think of the education she might have just gotten otherwise.

While the "A" students are learning the details of photosynthesis, the ADHD kids are staring out the window and wondering if it still works on a cloudy day.

We've always assumed The Aegis is all-knowing highly trained and organized but it's nothing but a cult, isn't it ? The weak and uneducated being led by those with their own agendas. Brainwashed lemmings following orders without question.

The continued existence of freedom is based on educated citizens who understand their own history, government, economics, and God-given values. Every day we have to sort out information from propaganda, due to the fact that the media of this world are full of "journalists" with a cause.

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But if you have to choose between someone with a staggering IQ and an elite education who's gliding along, and someone with a lower IQ but who is absolutely determined to succeed, you'll always do better with the second person.

I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work

Mountbatten was stunned by the rigidity of Jinnah's position. 'I never would have believed,' he later recalled, 'that an intelligent man, well-educated, trained in the Inns of Court, was capable of simply closing his mind

I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.

We need programs that will teach athletes how to spell 'jump shot' rather than how to shoot it.

i never learned anything while i was talking.

I didn't learn anything while I was talking.

I never learned anything when I was talking.

EMMA: I'm sorry. I still don't know how to tell people. They don't teach acting in medical school.

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

In contrast, an educational approach is heavily front-loaded. It expects people to work through a curriculum or set of experiences to be certified as spiritually mature or ready for leadership.