Quotes About Education

Bu kadar kalabal?k bir ortamda öÄŸrenciye dersleri anlatarak deÄŸil ezberleterek öÄŸretmek haliyle daha etkili bir yöntemdir.

Read them, read and learn, because there's so much to do, you know.

The human machine is the only medium by which the soul and the mind connect with the material world, and this marvelous mechanism, this temple Beautiful, should be kept in the superbest condition, for whatever mars it mars the soul's expression. M In our present system of education we are taught nearly everything except the very thing that we ought to know most about—the art of living. The schools and colleges teach scores of things that we never use directly in practical life

And above all, study, study, study ! All the genius in the world will not help you along with any art unless you become a hard student. It

The educated man ought to be able to do something better, something higher than merely to put money in his purse. Money-making can not compare with man-making.

The college diploma has no more power to hold the knowledge you have gained in college than a piece of tissue paper over a gas jet can hold the gas in the pipe.

If a man is not superior to his education, is not larger than his crutches or his helps, if he is not greater than the means of his culture, which are but the sign-boards pointing the way to success, he will never reach greatness. Not

Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education, it was said by Professor Huxley, is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson which ought to be learned, and, however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson which he learns thoroughly.

Every child should be taught to expect success, and to believe that he was born to achieve, as the acorn is destined to become an oak. It is cruel for parents and teachers to tell children that they are dull or stupid, or that they are not like others of their age.

Whereas in Western countries the constitution merely had to guarantee the rights of a per-existing civil society and culture, in Russia it also had to create these. It had to educate society - and the state itself - into the values and ideas of liberal constitutionalism.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already in the child, and whatever the stakes were, they would find a way to act as they needed to act. … Intelligence and education, which all these children had, apparently didn't make any important difference in human nature.

For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

I know everything I need to know already, Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet. So tell me, said Rigg. I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease...

If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.

No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn.

If you read to your kids, you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent-time.

See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet.

And it occurred to me that what we professors think of as a 'brilliant student' is nothing but a student who is enthusiastically converted to whatever idiotic ideas we've been teaching them.

These other armies, they aren't the enemy. It's the teachers, they're the enemy.