Quotes About Education

But specialization never answered the basic questions of life. Before that time, the fundamental role of education was to answer those questions. Unfortunately, the answers were often not good answers, and that put people in a position of saying, "Well, we don't even discuss this.

An understanding of ordinary logic is no longer a required part of university degree programs, as was almost universally the case sixty years ago. Now, as a result, our world is full of uneducated people with higher degrees. They

Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.

To permit ignorance is to empower it.

Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.

Readin is my super Power.. ;)

Semakin banyak manusia belajar, semakin banyak dia menyadari ketidaktahuannya.

Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn

Langdon was impressed. "You know Latin." "I grew up Catholic. I know sin.

Pain is part of growing up.It's how we learn.

America's forefathers had a vision of a spiritually enlightened utopia, in which freedom of thought, education of the masses, and scientific advancement would replace the darkness of outdated religious superstition.

How is it that you—a highly educated woman of science—don't see? Ozone depletion, lack of water, and pollution are not the disease—they are the symptoms. The disease is overpopulation. And unless we face world population head-on, we are doing nothing more than sticking a Band-Aid on a fast-growing cancerous tumor.

Now the student has surpassed his teacher, Langdon thought. By several light-years.

permit ignorance is to empower

The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know

as a classroom example of a basic

Aunque las luces estaban apagadas, Langdon notaba que todos estaban atónitos. Y él notaba un cosquilleo en su interior. Por eso se dedicaba a la docencia.

The more man learned, the more he realized he did not now.

It's the training, not the screening, that can put a high school graduate, who may have never driven a car, at the wheel of a fifty-million-dollar tank.

When Beth was killed, she was reading. It was around four on a Thursday afternoon, school was done and she was on her way to pick up Hazel at day care, hurrying down the sidewalk toward the bus stop. Walking and reading, which he always warned her about, her feet moving automatically beneath her as she flipped through a stack of quizzes that her students had taken in preparation for their sixth grade proficiency test. What

people in general so often seem to get dumber in direct proportion to their academic training.

Forcing school children to recite a national pledge doesn't sound very American to me," said James. "No," agreed Holmes. "It sounds German. Very German.

But he had once told Watson that the "less or fewer" issue, along with the use of "I" in such sentences as "He gave the money to Sheila and I", inflicted on the public by people who considered themselves well-educated, could be drastically reduced in frequency—if not actually abolished—by a few well-aimed pistol shots and an explanatory note that would be pinned to the victims' chests.

Tyrena did not laugh again but her smile slashed upward in a twist of green lips. "Martin, Martin, Martin," she said, "the population of literate people has been declining steadily since Gutenberg's day. By the twentieth century, less than two percent of the people in the so-called industrialized democracies read even one book a year. And that was before the smart machines, dataspheres, and user-friendly environments.