Quotes About Education

It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel in some degree as you do-who have not at least been given a taste for nature in early life. They lose a great deal.

Without thinking highly either of men or matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want. This preservative she had now obtained; and at the age of twenty-seven, without having ever been handsome, she felt all the good luck of it.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the

Canciones y proverbios, todo habla de la fragilidad femenina. Pero quizá diga usted que todos han sido escritos por hombres. - Quizá lo diga... Pero, por favor, no ponga ningún ejemplo de libros. Los hombres han tenido todas la ventaja sobre nosotras al contar ellos la historia. La educación de ellos ha sido mucho más completa; la pluma ha estado en sus manos. No permitiré que los libros me prueben nada. (p. 259)

All this she must possess», added Darcy, «and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading».

how young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished as they all are.

Demographic transition is associated with an increase in the quality of health care and sanitation as well as improved access to education, especially for women.

We tend to think that if a student is using a computer as part of an activity, then it's automatically a good activity. After all, they're using technology! But when we look at the results of that time spent at the computer, we really should be asking ourselves, how did this use of technology improve student learning?

I've come to believe that students would benefit more if we moved away from teaching them how to use technology and toward teaching them how to use technology to learn and think.

How did we get to the point where teachers hope for good results rather than plan for them?

Research shows that the average elementary teacher may ask as many as 348 questions a day (Sadker & Sadker, 1982), whereas the students may not ask any.

There was an odd rule throughout the College that no girl might buy a book.

Herman glowered, saying that clearly only Americans were historians now. 'They have so little of it to learn,' said Dulcie.

educate them.

I truly believe that a lot of what I perceive as deliberate cruelty is based on ignorance.

Chimpanzees and the other great apes can learn four hundred or more words of American Sign

because they're learning and listening while they play.

Still, it is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

the classroom, surrounded by the clatter of massed old-fashioned typewriters and the chatter of ex-debs whose main claim to distinction seemed to be the

It has long been recognized that getting an education is effective for bettering oneself and one's chances in the world. But a degree and an education are not necessarily synonymous.

Jacobs never relished the role of prophet, but at the end of her life she hazarded two related but opposite guesses. One path was what she called, in Dark Age Ahead, "cultural collapse." Jacobs found evidence of imminent decline in the erosion of family, community, science, education, governance, and professional integrity in North America.

Children do not develop responsibility when parents and teachers are too strict and controlling, nor do they develop responsibility when parents and teachers are permissive. Children learn responsibility when they have opportunities to learn valuable social and life skills for good character in an atmosphere of kindness, firmness, dignity, and respect.

The plays he had liked were the one called Measure for Measure, and another one called Macbeth. They were easy to follow, and what happened in them was kind of like what happened in junior high school.