Quotes About Education

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night.

Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot.

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.

Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Checklists educate people about what's best, showing them the ironclad right way to do something.

One important implication of the gap theory is that we need to open gaps before we close them. Our tendency is to tell people the facts. First, though, they must realize that they need these facts. The

Smart enough to get into Yale. Economists studied students who had been admitted to two schools of higher and lower prestige but decided to attend the school with lower prestige. Estimated sacrifice in lifetime earnings from attending the less prestigious school: none.

Parents are often shocked, too, to hear that, once you control for aptitude, a person's lifetime earnings don't vary based on what college they attended. In other words, if you're smart enough to get into Yale, it doesn't really matter (from an income perspective) whether you go there or instead choose your much cheaper state university. The

This is the Curse of Knowledge. Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. Our knowledge has "cursed" us.

the growth mindset can be taught and that it can change lives.

teacher was almost two times more likely to drop out than a student.

When your finance professor starts using the word "dude," you must eliminate the word from your vocabulary.

Rounding early means sharper recall in the end.

Rule #2. Concrete Is Better: Use Whole Numbers to Describe Whole Objects, Not Decimals, Fractions, or Percentages.

Programs that reduce drug use employ interactive methods, while ineffective programs don't.

In fact, one study in Philadelphia schools found that a teacher was almost two times more likely to drop out than a student.

If you've got to teach an idea to a room full of people, and you aren't certain what they know, concreteness is the only safe language.

just enough info to be useful, then a little more, then a little more.

Language is often abstract, but life is not abstract. Teachers

The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.

Nothing worth knowing can ever be taught in a classroom.

But at the end of the day, you can't major in Making Stuff, so it was Art by default.