Quotes About Education

El problema es que para cuando los profesores han acabado contigo, han arrasado completamente tu creatividad. Habla con los buenos estudiantes de «sobresaliente» y descubrirás que se han olvidado, en primer lugar, de porqué querían ser artistas. Todo lo que saben es reciclar la vieja basura rígida que aprendieron en la escuela.

I had a question. 'Why does the name Pearl Harbor sound so familiar?' The lieutenant colonel's eyes narrowed. 'Pearl Harbor is the most famous U.S. military base in the world,' he said crisply. 'It's the only place on U.S. soil that has been attacked in a wars, since the Revolutionary War.' None of this was ringing a bell, but you already know I'm totally uneducated. Gazzy leaned over to whisper, 'It was a movie with Ben Affleck.' Ah. Now I remembered.

Angel raised her hand. Excuse me. What does LTC stand for? She blinked innocently. Loving Tender Care?Gazzy suggested.If our instructor had had lasers for eyes, he would have sliced Gazzy in half. Lieutenant colonel, he sputtered.

Part 3 BACK TO SCHOOL (THE NORMAL KIND)

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.

Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture.

A classroom . People trying to stick me in classrooms was becoming as predictable and annoying as people trying to kill me, but with less-fun results.

What are they teaching these thugs? -Why are there so many of them? -What is the Institute for Higher Aeronautics? -How many of the are there? There are only six of us! Why? -Why is DC public transportation so weird? -Why don't we mug those Eraser goons for money more often? -Fang's Blog

He was the Teacher, the world was his students, and class was about to begin.

All teachers who were telling everyone where to go were wearing outfits made of aluminum foil , like robot aliens . 

I guess when you're a drama teacher, you're used to memorizing long speeches.

Knowledge truly is power, it's everything; if you don't have any, pretend you do.

The one thing in the world that can screw up a good education, derail career plans, and generally mess with your head: love.

I think if you did, you might not be shocked by it. Teachers are expected to do more and more, and much of the parenting authority has been ceded to us by the parents. In the media they call it teacher accountability, but really it's a lack of parent accountability. There's no respect anymore. I'm afraid I find the violence in this case shocking but not exactly the murder itself. Does that make sense?

The library will remain the school's number one information resource center, where everybody is free to study anything and everything they want.

SCHOOL—WHAT COULD BE SCARIER THAN THAT?

School are plastered with all sorts of NO BULLYING posters. There's only one problem: Bullies, it turns out, don't read too much. I guess reading really isn't a job requirement

Yesterday I asked my teacher, 'How come I have to study English? I'm never going to England!' " Stevie still isn't laughing, but

To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." - Theodore Roosevelt.

The more you read, the better you get at it.

There is no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.

been tutoring his son Ted.

Trent and Shawna are African American; Ricky and Julia, Hispanic; and Jane is Korean. My youngest's favorite show is The Magic School Bus. When we brought home the DVD, she exclaimed, "Daddy, it's a show about our family!

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are just kids who love reading and kids who are reading the wrong books. We need to help them find the right ones.