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Quotes About Education

our students should be playing Beethoven with research processes, but instead we are hearing Mary Had a Little Lamb.
~ William Badke
The professor is not merely an information dispensing machine, but a skilled navigator of a complex landscape.
~ William Badke
Information is supposed to inform. That means it has to be reliable, relevant, current, and so on. There was a time when people believed that, given the right information, we
~ William Badke
But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay.
~ William Blake
The Learned, who strive to ascend into Heaven by means of learning, appear to Children like dead horses, when repelled by the celestial spheres.
~ William Blake
Dr Jaffery said that very few people in Delhi now wanted to study classical Persian, the language which, like French in Imperial Russia, had for centuries been the first tongue of every educated Delhi-wallah. 'No one has any interest in the classics today,' he said. 'If they read at all, they read trash from America. They have no idea what they are missing. The jackal thinks he has feasted on the buffalo when in fact he has just eaten the eyes, entrails and testicles rejected by the lion.
~ William Dalrymple
Given the somewhat dubious and sectarian reputation of madrasas today, it is worth remembering that many of the most brilliant Hindu thinkers, including, for example, the great reformer Ram Mohan Roy (1772–1833), were the products of madrasa educations.
~ William Dalrymple
what young men in our colleges learn through those of Greek and Latin—that is grammar, rhetoric, and logic. After his seven years of study, the young Muhammadan binds his turban upon a head almost as well filled with the things which appertain to these branches of knowledge as the young man raw from Oxford—he will talk as fluently about Socrates and Aristotle, Plato and Hippocrates, Galen and Avicenna; (alias Sokrat, Aristotalis, Alflatun, Bokrat, Jalinus and Bu Ali Sena); and
~ William Dalrymple
All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.
~ William Dean Howells
I Would Rather Be Governed By the First 2,000 People in the Telephone Directory than by the Harvard University Faculty.
~ William F. Buckley Jr.
But is God a Yale man?
~ William F. Buckley Jr.
Read, read, read.
~ William Faulkner
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
~ William Faulkner
Garip ÅŸey, derdin ne olursa olsun erkekler sana diÅŸlerini muayene ettir der, kad?nlar da evlen der. Hayat?nda hiçbir ÅŸeyi baÅŸaramam?? bir adam kalkar sana iÅŸini nas?l yöneteceÄŸini anlat?r. Bir çift çorab? olmayan üniversite profesörlerinin on y?lda nas?l milyoner olunaca??n? ve ömründe bir koca bulamam?? bir kad?n?n aileye nas?l bak?laca??n? anlatmas?na benzer bu.
~ William Faulkner
Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
~ William Faulkner
It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.
~ William Faulkner
Read, read, read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read!
~ William Faulkner
Evidently it took Catholic school to turn young kids into fearless, hardened apostates.
~ William Finnegan
The function of this school is custodial. It's here to keep these kids off the streets until the girls are big enough to get pregnant and the boys are old enough to go out and hold up a gas station.
~ William Gaddis
Stupidity's the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
~ William Gaddis
In simple straightforward terms Dan, you might say that he structured the material in terms of the ongoing situation to tangibilitate the utilization potential of this one to one instructional medium in such a meaningful learning experience that these kids won't forget it for a hell of a long time, how's that Whiteback.
~ William Gaddis
Centered in the square carpet of green plastic turf, a Japanese teenager sat behind a C-shaped console, reading a textbook. The white fiberglass coffins were racked in a framework of industrial scaffolding. Six tiers of coffins, ten coffins on a side.
~ William Gibson
Trinity College (Dublin) library
~ William J. Bennett
Asking schools to even consider addressing social and political issues that divide the American people inevitably leads to conflict, as citizens conclude either that the schools have usurped the authority of parents and churches or that they have failed to keep up with the times. In one breath the public demands higher academic standards and the basics, in another attention to just about every divisive social problem.
~ William J. Reese