Quotes About Education

I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music.

Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child.

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

May books and nature be their early joy!

The true nature of mankind comes down to a simple question: 'Do we teach children how to be good or how to be bad?'

Nature has always had more force than education.

Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred.

Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

Learning is by nature, curiosity.

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.

By the very nature of government schooling, the matter of what goes into school textbooks must necessarily be a political matter, to be decided by those I political power.