Quotes About Education

How can I shake and dispel the awful reputation of being an "erudite" writer? I'm about as erudite as a traffic cop. I like to know things; what's so two-headed peculiar about that?

Olson's Maximus and Zukofsky's 'A' are too symbolically and verbally complex, respectively, to command large audiences especially in an age when a college degree is becoming a certificate of illiteracy.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Pour savoir écrire, il faut avoir lu, et pour savoir lire, il faut savoir vivre

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. MARK TWAIN

education sold as an investment good that has no economic return for most buyers is, quite simply, a fraud.

Without the freedom to make 'mistakes', people cannot learn to take control of their lives successfully.

We think olden times were simple because we know how grandpa's problems were solved, and any problem is simple when you can look up the answer in the back of the book.

As a former recipient of these services I can honestly say that the overwhelming majority of TANF recipients are hard-working Americans who are down on their luck, and just want an opportunity to better their lives and those of their family through work and access to education.

What shall I give my children? who are poor,Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land.

Maud went to college.Sadie stayed at home.Sadie scraped lifeWith a fine-tooth comb.

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

Punctuation is important, but the rules are changing. Spelling is important today in a way that it wasn't when Shakespeare was a boy. Grammar isn't set in stone.

Another survey revealed that while nine out of ten primary school children could identify a Dalek, only a third could recognise and name a magpie.

You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.

También, de la débil pedagogía que baja de nuestras escuelas, de nuestras iglesias, de nuestra vida intelectual, y de los malos hábitos y las pobres convicciones cívicas de la sociedad.

It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra.

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.