Quotes About Education

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students." [ Letter, November 1856 ]

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

A life without once reading Hamlet is like a life spent in a coal mine.

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

On average, schools employing a solely oral approach graduate students at eighteen who read at a fourth-grade level; students from Bi-Bi schools often read at grade level. Spoken English is taught as a useful tool, but is not a primary focus.

Thanks to the nation's testing mania (which I like to call 'No Child Left Untested' rather than 'No Child Left Behind'), children are being barraged with a nonstop volley of standardized tests. From kindergarten to graduate school, students are subjected to an unprecedented number of high-stakes tests

As I have said—and as should be obvious—stupid people need to read books in order to get smarter, but unfortunately people who like books are usually smart already, and stupid people do not read.

the only place more germ laden than a hospital is an elementary school.

Claude's kindergarten was full-day, six whole hours of sitting quietly and following rules and being away from home where someone—everyone—loved him best of all.

Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.

CONJUGATE THIS: I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish because I did not go to Spanish today. Gracias a dios. Hasta luego.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

In its failure to value differences in the way people learn, the educational process often suppresses intuition, creativity, and your sense of identity.

Each of us has more intelligence than we are trained to use and the part that we get graded on in school doesn't amount to much.

There are things running around out there with uteruses,son. You're going to need this.

I've begun to have those stupid dreams. You know the ones where you show up for the final exam and haven't cracked a book all semester?

This life is a process of learning.

No matter the gender or location, the students brought her joy and frustration, laughter and sometimes sorrow, but they gave her a worthy reason to get out of bed every morning.

It is also vital that our relationship with nature and the environment be included in our education systems. This is not longer something cute or nice to do; it is now a singular imperative.

You show up at these meetings to stay sober and you walk out with a fucking education.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library ... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

The investment in the education of girls may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.

just want to read more books and be a knowledgeable female.