Quotes About Education

I'd go to his classes so that I'd be able to speak his language, the language of science. When he took the podium, he always began by saying, "Fellow students…" He taught me the humility of knowing that we were all, always, students, and that to stop being a student was to stop living. When

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Driving home later that night, Dees lamented that young black people born after the end of the civil rights era knew almost nothing about those who had died so they could live freer lives. And those of the white race knew even less about one of the most important social

Driving home later that night, Dees lamented that young black people born after the end of the civil rights era knew almost nothing about those who had died so they could live freer lives. And those of the white race knew even less about one of the most important social and political movements in American history.

A man should know something of his own country, too, before he goes abroad.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.

A shame really, because putting the right book in the right kid's hands is kind of like giving that kid superpowers.

Good writing demands self-discipline and constant learning

Librarians, of all people, understood the value of knowing, even if that information could not yet be used.

Nath had just started the first grade, Lydia had just started nursery school, Hannah had not yet even been imagined. For the first time since she'd been married, Marilyn found herself unoccupied. She was twenty-nine years old, still young, still slender. Still smart, she thought. She could go back to school now, at last, and finish her degree. Do everything she'd planned before the children came along. Only now she couldn't remember how to write a paper, how

So you banned all those books, Sadie said, and the teacher had blinked twice at her over her glasses. Oh no, sweetie, she said. People think that sometimes, but no. No one bans anything. Haven't you ever heard of the Bill of Rights? The class giggled, and Sadie flushed. Every school makes its own independent judgments, the teacher said.

The librarian sighs. How can you know, she says, if no one teaches you, and no one ever talks about it, and all the books about it are gone?

mientras su madre prometía a las alumnas enseñarles todo lo que una joven dama necesitaba para llevar las riendas de una casa. Como si una casa, pensó Marilyn, fuera algo que pudiera irse galopando si te distraías.

All weekend he'd wandered awestruck, trying to take it all in: the fluted pillars of the enormous library, the red brick of the buildings against the bright green of the lawns, the sweet chalk smell that lingered in each lecture hall. The purposeful stride he saw in everyone's walk, as if they knew they were destined for greatness.

Each year they learn the same thing, just in bigger words.

A community is known by the schools it keeps.

About which books are useful to their students and which books might expose them to dangerous ideas. Let me ask you something: Whose parents want them to spend time with bad people?

education costs money. but then so does ignorance.

They probably teach you that most plantation owners were kind to their slaves and that Columbus discovered America, don't they?

Dahi, hocas?n? iyi seçendir.

Hoca ö?retmen oldu, talebe ö?renci. Ö?retmen ne demek? Ne so?uk ne haysiyetsiz, ne çirkin kelime. Hoca ö?retmez, yeti?tirir, ayd?nlat?r, yarat?r. Ö?renci ne demek? Talebe isteyendir; isteyen, arayan, susayan.

Modernleri büyüleyen, Yunanistan'?n en az apolloncu yönü kadar dionizoscu yönü de olmu?tur. Üç yüzy?ld?r, Eski Yunan mitoslar?n? yeni ba?tan yorumluyor Avrupa; Avrupal? yazarla­r? büyüleyen, bu mitoslar?n ilkel ve ha?in taraflar?. Yunan ve Latin edebiyatlanna ancak ?u manada klasik demek yerindedir: mekteplerde okutulurlar ve her zaman tazedirler.