Quotes About Education

I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake.

Continual intellectual study may result in vanity, false satisfaction and undigested knowledge.

A university degree, in any case, is not remotely related to Vedic realization. Saints are not produced in batches every semester like accountants." After

Mi madre, por su parte, era una reina de corazones y nos educó exclusivamente por medio del amor. Después

A university degree, in any case, is not remotely related to Vedic realization. Saints are not produced in batches every semester like accountants.

That is why I opened Santiniketan under the shady trees and the glories of the sky." He motioned eloquently to a little group studying in the beautiful garden. "A child is in his natural setting amidst the flowers and songbirds. Only thus may he fully express the hidden wealth of his individual endowment. True education can never be crammed and pumped from without; rather, it must aid in bringing spontaneously to the surface the infinite hoards of wisdom within.

Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary

Good and positive suggestions should instruct the sensitive ears of children. Their early ideas long remain sharply etched.

Remember what your grandfather said about the earth's being round at school and flat at home. He was a wise man and taught you what you need to know in Burma. It is the same in politics. Learn the arguments for socialism in the textbooks parrot them pass your exams. Never never argue. But keep within your own head and heart what you and everyone really knows that in the real world it is a system of incompetence and corruption and a project for ruining the country.

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language.

No man or woman has the right to humiliate children, even in the sacrosanct name of education. No one has the right to beat children with leather straps, even under the sacred auspices of all school boards in the world.

I dislike poor teachers. They are criminals to me. I've seen so much cruelty toward children. I've seen so many children not given the opportunity to live up to their potential as human beings.

I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.

Read the great books, gentlemen," Mr. Monte said one day. "Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There's not enough time.

It was funny how we thought education to be the great gilded key which would solve all problems, eliminate all poverty and disease, eradicate differences between social classes, and bring the children of okra-planters up to par with the children of emperors.

I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid.

The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.

From the beginning, I've told journalists that I planned to write better than any writer of my era who graduated from an Ivy League college. It sounds boastful and it is. But The Citadel taught me that I was a man of courage when I survived that merciless crucible of a four-year test that is the measure of The Citadel experience. I'm the kind of writer I am because of The Citadel.

Good taste is not something you can be taught. It's not something you obtain in a store or go to college to learn.

Think instead about children. People. Human beings. Feel for once that education is about people—not figures.

Though I've never met a teacher who was not happy in retirement, I rarely meet one who thinks that their teaching life was not a grand way to spend a human life. The unhappy ones are the young ones, those who must teach in public schools when the whole nation seems at war with the very essence of teaching.

A nation of unhappy teachers makes for a sadder and more endangered America.