Quotes About Education

That's what I like about a well-educated man. If he contemplates the obvious long enough, he finally gets a clue.

The politics that enter the university are those that come from history, a retro politics, emptied of substance and legalized in their superficial exercise.

Secondary-school pupils are demanding more school, more funding, more staff, more security. Nineteenth-century demands. School is finished. All we can do is transform it into a gigantic Web cafe. In their own heads, the school students have already moved over into multimedia and the twenty-first century, as is attested by the incongruity of the demonstrations, including the incongruity of the anachronistic violence of the hooligan element.

La politique qui entre à l'université est celle qui sort de l'histoire, c'est une politique rétro, vidée de sa substance et légalisée dans son exercice superficiel, aire de jeu et terrain d'aventure (…)

On nous veut avec les stigmates des grandes écoles, je le veux avec les stigmates de la vie.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain than an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Dil öÄŸretimini eÄŸitimin yarars?z yanlar? aras?nda saymama ÅŸa??lacakt?r; ama burada yaln?zca ilk yaÅŸlardaki öÄŸretimden söz ettiÄŸim unutulmamal?; hem ne denirse densin, hiçbir çocuÄŸun, harika çocuklar d???nda, on iki ya da on beÅŸ ya??na kadar gerçekten iki dil öÄŸrenmiÅŸ olaca??n? kesinlikle sanm?yorum.

Can s?k?c? bir budalal??? betimlemem gerekseydi, çocuklar?na din dersi veren bir bilgiçi betimlerdim. Bir çocuÄŸu deli yapmak isteseydim, onu öÄŸrendiÄŸi din bilgisini ezbere yineleyip anlat?rken, söylediklerini aç?klamak zorunda b?rak?rd?m.

ÖrneÄŸin çocuk gördüÄŸü bir ÅŸeyi istiyorsa ve bu da ona verilebilir bir ÅŸeyse, o zaman bu ÅŸeyi çocuÄŸa getirmektense çocuÄŸu ona götürmek daha doÄŸru olur: O, bu uygulamadan ya??na göre bir sonuç ç?kar?r ve bu sonucu ona esinlemenin baÅŸka hiçbir yolu yoktur.

Learning is borrowed knowledge; genius is knowledge innate.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. Among the most necessary knowledge is the knowledge of how to live well, that is, how to produce the least possible evil and the greatest goodness in one's life. At present, people study useless sciences, but forget to study this, the most important knowledge.

I think we all have an obligation to teach children whatever we can

Children should be able to do their own experimenting and their own research. Teachers, of course, can guide them by providing appropriate materials, but the essential thing is that in order for a child to understand something, he must construct it himself, he must re-invent it. Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand that which we allow him to discover by himself will remain with him visibly [...] for all the rest of his life.

for example, to see whether in the developing subject, i.e. the child, integers are directly constructed starting from class logic by biunivocal correspondence and the construction of a "class of equivalent classes" as Frege and B. Russell thought, or whether the construction is more complex and presupposes the concept of order.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Si un individuo es pasivo intelectualmente, no conseguirá ser libre moralmente (Jean Piaget)

The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

Homine imperito nunquam quidquam injustius. [There is nothing more unfair than an ignoramus.]

Périodiquement, le FMI accorde aux pays surendettés un moratoire temporaire ou un refinancement de leur dette. À condition que le pays surendetté se soumette au plan dit d'ajustement structurel. Tous ces plans comportent la réduction, dans les budgets des pays concernés, des dépenses de santé et de scolarité, et la suppression des subventions aux aliments de base et de l'aide aux familles nécessiteuses.

I loved college... I knew exactly why I was there and what I wanted to get out of it. I wished I could take every course in the curriculum and read every book in the library. Sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find our who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it.

In the Koran, the first thing God said to Muhammed was 'Read.

What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.

For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.

I did not realize that when money becomes a core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the mind will not be counted as good unless it produces measurable results. That public services will no longer be important. That an alternative life to getting and spending will become very difficult as cheap housing disappears. That when communities are destroyed only misery and intolerance are left.