Quotes About Education

Every member of this class is under the impression that they are thick, and every single one of them is the opposite. Passing the GCSE now probably won't improve their job prospects or raise their estimation in the eyes of their family and friends.

Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.

You're more likely to be able to get on in life, get educated, and get a good job, regardless of who your parents are and what they do in Denmark than anywhere else. It turns out that it's easier to live 'The American Dream' here than it's ever likely to be in the US.

With a focus on creativity in schools and nurturing future job talent, many Danes are getting a leg-up right to the summit of the triangle. By contrast, some developed countries haven't even got past the second rung of 'safety' – with no healthcare or job security (hello, USA).

Psychologists at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, found that the better educated and wealthier a nation is, the less likely its population is to believe in a higher being.

Psychologists at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, found that the better educated and wealthier a nation is, the less likely its population is to believe in a higher being. The Global Index of Religion and Atheism also assessed that poverty was a key indicator of a society's tendency towards religion – so that poorer countries tend to be the most religious. The one exception to the rule? America.

Continuing to learn throughout life helps improve mental well-being, boosts self-confidence, gives you a sense of purpose and makes you feel more connected to others, according to the Office for National Statistics.

inhabitants paid cripplingly high taxes. Which meant that we would, too. Oh brilliant! We'll be even more skint by the end of the month than we are already… But for your Danish krone, I learned, you got a comprehensive welfare system, free healthcare, free education (including university tuition), subsidised childcare and unemployment insurance guaranteeing 80 per cent of your wages for two years.

They don't choose a profession based on how much they're going to earn. They choose it based on what interests them. Education is free so anyone can train in whatever they want. You know you're going to get taxed a lot anyway, so you may as well just focus on doing what you love, rather than what's going to land you a massive salary.

To overlearn means to continue to study and memorize well past the point of initial mastery, so that one attains automatic recall. The term figures prominently in this section and reappears in the first paragraph of section III of this chapter.

The standards for graduates are getting worse and worse. They're slackers. They think all they have to do is read a few pages in a textbook to make it! No desire whatsoever to do a little extra," fumed the professor.

Speaking figuratively, the study of theology often produces overgrown youths whose internal organs have not correspondingly developed. This is a characteristic of adolescence. There is actually something like theological puberty.

The general education of the population also gave cause for optimism. In 1900, Germans counted among the most literate people in the world, with literacy rates in the range, of those found in the United States today.

You must take a year off, one of these days, before you're old and tired and weighed down by responsibility. Go away somewhere, and read. Read all the important books. Educate yourself, then you'll see the world in a different way.

College: A fountain of knowledge where all go to drink.

Faculty: The people who get what's left after the football coach receives his salary.

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

You teach a little by what you say. You teach most by what you are.

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly being deskilled and forced to act as semi-robotic technicians good for little more than teaching for the test...