Quotes About Education

The Mind in the Making.

In school you're rewarded for not making mistakes.

Once he found learning was easy, his whole life changed.

It taught Carnegie a lesson he never forgot.

Não é possível ensinar qualquer coisa a um homem. Só é possível ajudá-lo a descobri-la dentro de si.

Os homens devem ser ensinados como se não fossem ensinados, e o desconhecido, proposto como se fosse algo esquecido.

F. Skinner, the world-famous psychologist, proved through his experiments that an animal rewarded for good behavior will learn much more rapidly and retain what it learns far more effectively than an animal punished for bad behavior.

Amo meu trabalho de professor. Escrevi um livro chamado The Excitement of Teaching (A empolgação de lecionar). Ensinar sempre foi mais do que uma arte ou uma ocupação para mim; é uma paixão. Amo ensinar como um pintor ama pintar ou um cantor ama cantar. Antes de me levantar da cama de manhã, penso com muita alegria no meu primeiro grupo de alunos. Entusiasmo é um dos principais combustíveis para se alcançar o sucesso na vida.

personality and the ability to talk are more important than a knowledge of Latin verbs or a sheepskin from Harvard.

For "the great aim of education," said Herbert Spencer, the English sociologist and philosopher, "is not knowledge but action.

Wouldn't you suppose that every college in the land would conduct courses to develop the highest-priced ability under the sun? But if there is just one practical, common-sense course of that kind given for adults in even one college in the land, it has escaped my attention up to the present

Since no such book existed, I have tried to write one for use in my own courses.

1871, a young man picked up a book and read twenty-one words that had a profound effect on his future. A medical student at the Montreal General Hospital

Alexander Pope: Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Over three hundred years ago Galileo said: You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

Since worry is one of the biggest problems facing mankind, you would think, wouldn't you, that every high school and college in the land would give a course on "How to Stop Worrying"?

Su mala educación sólo es superada por su mala educación".

el gran objetivo de la educación —dijo Herbert Spencer— no es el conocimiento, sino la acción".

Se ha de enseñar a los hombres como si no se les enseñara. Y proponerles cosas ignoradas como si fueran olvidadas.

Sólo sé que no sé nada".

un profundo, impulsivo deseo de aprender, una vigorosa decisión de aumentar su capacidad para tratar con la gente.

Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence. The invention of printing, technics, compulsory education— nothing has so altered man as this lack of relationship to silence, this fact that silence is no longer taken for granted, as something as natural as the sky above or the air we breathe. Man who has lost silence has not merely lost one human quality but his whole structure has been changed thereby. — MAX PICARD FRENCH PHILOSOPHER

Similarly, a primary objective for Christian educators and a major task of professional pastors, if not the foremost task, should be the wholesale elimination of condemnation and anti-intellectualism from the local church.

My people perish from lack of knowledge" (Hos 4:6).

It is reasonable to expect that leading a divine conspiracy will require journalists, writers, artists, and scholars to carefully, accurately, and courageously expose the follies of our social institutions in government, business, religion, art, economics, engineering, medicine, law, finance, security, and education. This is where our Christian universities play perhaps the central role, if administrating the common flourishing is to occur in any meaningful way.