Quotes About Education

The same theme can be found in Carol Reed's pioneering The Stars Look Down, in which three classic avenue of escape from the working class are posited: crime, football and education.

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.

Throughout the length and breadth of the world, the smart ones sharpen their minds in the schools and universities. In Greece, they sharpen them on the suckers. The more suckers there are around, the more smart ones there are.

Ah efendim, dedi, bizi bizden daha iyi biliyorlar; Mesnevi'yi de, Rubiyat'? da, Gazali'yi de, Farabi'yi de bizden daha çok okuyorlar; bizden daha çok takdir ediyorlar; bizim bizden daha büyük dü?man?m?z yoktur efendim, yoktur.

Sen felsefeyi b?rak, yine T?p Fakültesine dön, diyordu Mister Joe, orada tabiat?n kanunlar?yla daha yak?ndan temas edecek ve kendini daha iyi anlayacaks?n. T?pta doktor, felsefede hasta olursun.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

In learning we teach and in teaching we learn.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

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even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, "It's because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae.

Richard's first day at school was not as a joyous time in the Ramirez household as the other children's had been. None was doing well in school. Joseph and Ruth got by and stayed out of trouble, but Ruben and Robert were always in trouble, getting failing marks and getting into fights.

Other than the epilepsy, Richard had few problems during his first years of school. He liked to make people laugh, and that caused him to be disciplined sometimes, but he was a good student who paid attention in class and tried to do well, work hard, and get along with others. He did not, like Ruben and Robert, fight with the other children.

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.

Knowledge is something we can all increase, but only slowly. People who haven't stayed mentally active have little hope of catching up to lifelong learners.

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

United States ranked No. 25 on international comparative tests. In Finland, which ranked No. 1, children don't start formal schooling until they're 7 years old,

In the 2009–2010 school year, around 690,000 non-U.S. citizens were enrolled at American colleges, the highest level in the world and up 26 percent from a decade ago. Non-U.S.

Future-oriented people tend to be more successful professionally and academically, to eat well, to exercise regularly, and to schedule preventive doctor's exams.

now that many schools receive funding based on test results, teachers teach for those outcomes, not for curiosity or critical thinking, nor for learning nonspecific principals or values. Such training to focus on fact memorization lowers the intellectual level of the teachers themselves, not just their bored students.

And, between teaching with love and teaching with fear, I have to say the benefit of each is about the same.