Quotes About Education

If knowing about the dangers of smoking were enough, almost no one would smoke.

Teaching should not be confused with personal practice.

La cultura ayuda a un pueblo a luchar con las palabras antes que con las armas

Por entonces era todavía joven; conocía poco los hombres y la historia: me había tomado en serio lo que me enseñaban en la Universidad.

if you are humble, you are capable of learning – and the capacity to learn is the capacity to improve.

I like to win. I like to train, but above all, I want to teach people to compete representing universal values: values based on respect and education. Giving everything while competing with dignity is a victory, whatever the scoreline suggests.

The players who go through La Masía are taught to behave with civility and humility. The theory being that, not only is it pleasant to be unassuming, but also if you are humble, you are capable of learning – and the capacity to learn is the capacity to improve. If you aren't capable of learning you won't improve.

Julián había apostado por el «cuente, no cante», como exigía Juan Rulfo a sus alumnos en el Centro Mexicano de Escritores

décadas enteras de mala política, de inmensos desequilibrios económicos, de pésima educación no pueden más que llevar a una comunidad al suicidio o a la histeria.

There were limits to what I could learn.

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.

verzeihen Sie, daß ich so furchtbar gescheit daherrede, aber wenn man an der Universität ist, kommt einem eine Menge vertrottelter Bücher unter die Hände; unwillkürlich verfällt man dann in eine deppenhafte Ausdrucksweise.

Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Instead of preparing men for life French schools solely prepare them to occupy public functions, in which success can be attained without any necessity for self-direction or the exhibition of the least glimmer of personal initiative.

Experience alone, that supreme educator of peoples, will be at pains to show us our mistake. It alone will be powerful enough to prove the necessity of replacing our odious text-books and our pitiable examinations by industrial instruction capable of inducing our young men to return to the fields, to the workshop, and to the colonial enterprise which they avoid to-day at all costs.

From the primary school till he leaves the university a young man does nothing but acquire books by heart without his judgment or personal initiative being ever called into play.

It is in the schoolroom that socialists and anarchists are found nowadays, and that the way is being paved for the approaching period of decadence for the Latin Peoples.

Bir ?rk?n ruhunu olu?turan bilinç d??? unsurlar, ona mensup tüm bireylerin birbirlerine benzemesini sa?larken farkl?la?malar?na yol açansa e?itimin ve özellikle de istisnai bir kal?t?m?n neticesine olan bilinçli unsurlard?r.

In the final analysis, poverty means death: lack of food and housing, the inability to attend properly to health and education needs, the exploitation of workers, permanent unemployment, the lack of respect for one's human dignity, and unjust limitations placed on personal freedom in the areas of self-expression, politics, and religion.

Like most art students, I expect I'll find that there is no demand for what I've learned so I'll teach other students so that one day they can teach as well.

My impression is that the products of our art colleges are not over-endowed with coin of the realm.

Sadly, schools deal in the sale and exchange of knowledge, not wisdom." ~ "The Hole

It is the kind of learning you are practising that is important, not the subject-matter you are practising on.

The poet and poetess have always had a rough time of it in the Republic. It has ever been their endemic luck to starve, become a Harvard professor, commit suicide, lose their reading glasses before an audience of sophomores, go upon the people a la Barnum, and serve as homework in state universities, where they could in nowise get a position and where their presence usually scatters the English faculty like a truant officer among the Amish.