Quotes About Education

The press is hostile to the idea of liberty. Most people in the press are for big government. Most people think that the solution to anything, whether it's health care problems, education, whatever it is -- it's got to be more government.

The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.

Civilizations... cannot flourish if they are beset with troublesome infections of mistaken beliefs.

To establish and to sustain an advanced culture, we need to avoid being debilitated either by error or by ignorance. We need to know—and, of course, we must also understand how to make productive use of—a great many truths.

This is a world where the educated get richer and the uneducated get poorer.

Tell her the three keys to wisdom: not believing all you hear, not spending all you have, and not sleeping all you want. These will be difficult for her until she graduates from college.

not all students complete their assignments, often because they either cannot understand the assignment or they fail to see the reason for doing it. In both cases, the assignment may be poorly designed.

School is not a place where students come to listen to lectures, fill in worksheets, and endure boredom. Nor is it a place reserved for those who can tolerate the drab and dirty look of many schools. School is a concept wherein students are welcome to learn and enhance the quality of their lives without fear of intimidation or harm, guided by hospitable and caring people in a clean and orderly environment.

when the assignment does not spell out what the student is to learn. There are no standards, no objectives, and no activities done for a specified reason. It's like shooting arrows blindfolded hoping that one will hit a non-existing target.

When the students have no idea what is to be learned, and the teacher has no idea what is to be taught, no student learning can take place.

One of the most frequently used and useless phrases in education is, "I have so much to cover. How am I going to finish it by the end of the year?" Notice that the word I is used twice and the word student is never used.

Faptul ca un om a avut parte de o pregatire stiintifica nu inseamna neaparat ca el urmeaza sa aiba un comportament stiintific tot timpul.

Marks usually reward the most docile students, those who conform to their teachers' opinions. There's nothing competitive about learning, it's something everyone does for himself alone.

suppose he were to donate a laboratory to Brandeis or even to Harvard? The

Instead of going back to teaching, she began to do housework because it paid more.

Such ambitions for their children as most people entertained were reserved for their sons, because it was assumed that the "girls will get married and won't need to know much anyway.

School het echte werk in de voorbereidingen en was de eigenlijke presentatie niet meer dan een toegift?

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

The 'C' students run the world.

It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

If you can read this thank a teacher.

Performance Is Worth A Fortune Than Promises. Persistence is far more important than perfection. Possibilities are for winners as problems are for quitters. Quality of your preparation determines the quality of your PERFORMANCE. reaching the goal is not a problem. problem is not having a goal at all. Scores are temporary, education is permanent. Make the best of it. season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.