Quotes About Education

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.

When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money.

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.

School didn't work for me. I hated it.

Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.

Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.

When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.

It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!

Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.

The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

More drills for poor readers do not work.

No school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests

First of all, farmers should work with universities and research institutions in the country, and hopefully with the government.

With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!

By giving kids an allowance, you teach that child to work for money rather than learn to create money.

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.

We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.

In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.