Quotes About Education

Research shows that the number of years of education a person has is a more important factor in determining risk of heart disease than all the other risk factors combined.23 While educated people are more likely to read and understand written health warnings, they also tend to be more aware of what is going on around them and how social forces act to affect their life.

Culture can be loosely defined as the body of non-genetic information which people pass from generation to generation.

Closing a student's mind should be a criminal offense. If you let your ego get in the way of your teaching, you may become flustered or angry and lose sight of your goal to enlighten or give back.

I have witnessed both good and bad teachers. Too many times teachers, or "instructors," want to wear the title or the T-shirt, if you will, to satisfy their own egos.

Ask any performer in the field who they would choose to lead them in a high-risk environment: the person with four years of college or the person with four years of experience? The answer is simple.

You must also understand that with muscle memory, at least two to three thousand repetitions are necessary to help master a simple skill.

School chasers, on the other hand, will have stunning résumés but are functionally illiterate in their fields and are often socially inept. Much of the time, they put so much energy in getting certificates, they never do their job, or their entire focus is spent on getting the "slot," that they never have a chance to develop their team. Further, if they are always in school, they are never home to pass the knowledge on and develop their teams.

Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.

Did one learn or was one shaped?

What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him $2 an hour if the fact that he must be paid that amount is what keeps him from getting a job?

When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all

People will tell you, "What's the use? What's the point of reading novels and poetry?" They'll tell you to go to law school or to be an economist or to do something useful. But books are useful. Books will make you thoughtful, and they might even make you happy. They will certainly help you to become more civilized.

I cannot think of any writer of stature in English who has not shown a knowledge of the Bible.

Read to live better.

Texas A&M International

For many years we had escuelas normales, which were meant to prepare teachers to go to the countryside, to teach in these schools. In the beginning there were thirty or more escuelas normales, but these days there are only thirteen.

The teachers," said one bus driver. "It's always the teachers," the other one said. I sighed, grumbled, kicked at roadside gravel, and slapped my head.

I speak my language fluently, but my children aren't interested," she said

the combination of killing, mutilation, and mass forced disappearance—was targeted directly at the students for being radical, organized, poor; rural and indigenous students of a school noted for its anti-government organizing

Education in Mexico turns people into activists.

But these former Red Guards and the refugees from the Cultural Revolution-surely they're out of school?' 'No, Chen said. 'There's a whole army of night-school students.

I taught from a book called Modern American English. 'You're lucky to have me. I'm a modern American and I speak English, I said.

People always tell you that night school is a good thing,' I said. 'But they are the same people who go home after a day's work and eat and snooze and listen to the radio. You students are doing one of the hardest things in the world- studying at night, when you're tired ...

His education was sketchy, yet he was immensely learned in the oblique and selective way of someone self-taught.