Quotes About Education

Math is radical!

Trigonometry is a sine of the times.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

Year 2020 Humor. — Kids in the future will have to endure an entire school year of History class devoted just to the year 2020.

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.

He whose science exceedeth his sense, perisheth by his ignorance.

Conservatives say teaching sex education in the public schools will promote promiscuity. With our education system? If we promote promiscuity the same way we promote math or science, they've got nothing to worry about.

It was also Jacque who told me that children didn't come out of their mother's tummies. As she put it, "Where the ingredients go in is where the finished product comes out!"

The barber learns to shave at the beards of fools.

The little boy was coming home from school. He was skipping merrily along, singing to himself and swinging his bag of books at arm's length, while he kept time with his nimble little feet to a song he had been learning in his class that day.

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

Nicht die Kinder bloß, speist man mit Märchen ab.

Religion is the solid basis of good morals therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

Getting good grades and learning things is the key to any door you want to open in the future. If you don't try your best, you are hurting yourself the most.

In college he had been too much engrossed with other things to listen to the arguments, or to be influenced by the general atmosphere of unbelief

Learning is not a product of teaching. Kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They're basically little scientists. If we don't stop that process, it will continue.

According to Educator's Newsletter, eighty percent of us have high self-esteem in first grade; by twelfth grade only five percent of us still feel good about ourselves. As the Luno newsletter comments, those statistics raise "the possibility that school is the biggest mental health problem we've ever known.

Give me a child until he is seven, thought Tom, and he is forever after mine. When the Fascists say it, they're bums and kidnappers, but when the Church says it, it is known as putting a kid on the right track.

I finally understood that I didn't lack pen and paper but my own memorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, called rote learning, old-fashioned, backward, an enemy of creative thinking, a great human gift disowned.

Despite no education, Mrs. Finn always is more in charge of word meanings than I am. She is especially in charge of Good and Bad. My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in my head, as there is in Webster's or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

He was stupid, yes; he had never had any schooling; he didn't know how to explain himself. Was he in jail because he doesn't know how to explain things right? What was wrong with his being stupid? He worked like a slave, day in and day out. [...] Was it his fault he was stupid? Who was to blame?