Quotes About Education

I do not understand how private schools claim that the entry of disadvantaged children will dilute merit; all that it will do is to breach the complacency and conceit of privilege. There

Students should be told how to think, not what to think!

A good book, the most important resource in the world.

acordo com o modelo bíblico para a educação, os pais devem controlar a educação de seus filhos e se envolver com ela de forma direta. Diante de Deus, nem o Estado nem a igreja tem qualquer jurisdição nesse assunto.

Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.

As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.

I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.

I have been looking for an institution to continue my degree, but I couldn't because they didn't allow me to do it part time. My friend introduced me to original-degree.com and it literally changed my life. I am now continuing my degree, and working as well.

Every soul is born with concentration; it loses this faculty as it grows up.

Whoever had decided that school should start so early in the morning and last all day long needed to be hunted down and forced to watch hours of educational televison without the aid of caffine.

Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.

Nothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which just goes to prove that parents and guardians don't care if they're sending you to face bloodthirsty monsters, so long as you get a B in English.

Some grown-ups could be so inherently stupid. Try banning homework sometime. You might see those straight A's so many parents long for.

Our current higher education system is steeped in a philosophy that doubts our ability to even perceive the physical world. That philosophy is called postmodernism.

Annual Report of the Department of Education, 1928-9: Mortality rate 3.5 per thousand. This rate is somewhat higher than that for the country as a whole. Medical officers make quarterly inspections of all pupils and special attention is given to delicate pupils. Numbers under detention 6,515. Seven boys and sixteen girls died.

You are here to learn, not to love. Although you may learn not to love, which is another thing entirely.

My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18, so I'll use it for college.

I loved the idea of a subversive world where mental illness was defined as just another version of normal, and education was how you made your way in the world, not something that began or ended.

Whoever teaches his son teaches not alone his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end of generations.

Rivalry of scholars advances wisdom.