Quotes About Education

I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.

As educators, we are only as effective as what we know. If we have no working knowledge of what students studied in previous years, how can we build on their learning? If we have no insight into the curriculum in later grades, how can we prepare learners for future classes?

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

I was a very good student. Procrastinating gives me anxiety, and getting a B really ticked me off. Sure, I didn't always want to do my homework, but I actually really liked school. As nerdy as it sounds, I love learning.

You must learn to make the whole world your school.

I'm still learning.

One of the most damaging and widespread social beliefs is the idea that most adults are incapable of learning new skills.

Explain what you learned to someone else. Teaching forces learning.

Teaching is more a way for the teacher to learn than for the student to learn.

The cost of failure is…learning.

Ignorance is thinking you're not a student anymore.

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

Teaching is demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

Maths is like learning a language: you need to learn the basics to get going, but a lot of adults go into blind panic about numbers and switch off.

Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.

The day you stop learning is the day you start dying.

The medicine for anti-aging is lifelong learning.

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer.

Do your best and keep learning that's what I believe in.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

Those life experiences that helped shaped my political beliefs are with me in every position I take and every vote that I cast – whether it be in favor of comprehensive immigration reform, strengthening Social Security and Medicare, or improving our nation's education system.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make learning unnecessary.