Quotes About Education

Learning becomes a joy when children have what we call "aha!" moments.

Over the years, we have discovered that when it comes to leaving no child behind, highly gifted students are the most likely to fall through the cracks in American classrooms.

We do not believe that most educators or schools or communities are hostile to the needs of gifted learners. Rather, most people are simply indifferent.

With all the other educational crises plaguing American schools these days, why, people ask, should we focus on children who seem better able than other students to fend for themselves? People believe these children have it easy.

All kids—low-achievers, high-achievers, and those in the middle—deserve to have their educational needs met.

Yet in a country with one hundred types of toothpaste on supermarket shelves, schools still follow a one-size-fits-all educational model.

Children march in lockstep through grades with their age peers, regardless of their capabilities.

We first answer these questions by saying that schools should not discriminate against gifted kids.

We also know that children learn best when surrounded by their intellectual peers.

They soon learned how difficult and hostile school can be for a child who is different.

Her parents asked for special courses or distance-learning opportunities, but the school refused. It had never been done before, administrators said.

What did classes matter when she knew everything taught in them? Not learning made her miserable. She decided that she was the crazy one, that she was too different. It was better to stop trying. She started getting C's on her report cards.

As part of it, some teachers created a behavioral checklist for her in tenth grade. It was a prescription for how to fit in: Don't talk so much in class; keep it to a sound bite. Don't be so aggressive. Don't answer all the questions. Don't discuss things so much. Tone it down. Don't challenge the classroom status quo.

Preparing the young minds and hearts of the next generation is imperative work.

In his book, Payne advises cutting back on toys that are too complicated (elaborate, joyless "educational" toys), too fixed (ones that require zero imaginative input, such as a huge furnished plastic castle with a cast of thousands), or too commercial. The more a child can use their imagination with a toy—initiating the action, rather than having it prescribed for them—the better.

Children benefit, too, in surprising ways: research has shown that when men share housework and childcare, their kids do better in school and are less likely to see a child psychiatrist or be put on behavioral medication.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men. Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these. - Mr. Darcy

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. You are mistaken, said he gently, that is not good company; that is the best. Good company requires only birth, education, and manners (...)