Quotes About Education

its workforce composed of assembly-line workers as well as highly educated graduates of the city's sixteen universities and institutes of technology.

Here at Sudan the students humiliated their teachers,' she said. 'But in the high schools it was not unknown for students to beat their teachers to death.

I really hate it when a teacher has to show that she isn't behind the times by using some expression which sounds so up-to-date you know for sure she's behind the times.

When are you getting married?' 'After graduation, stupid.

All TV is educational. The question is, 'What are we teaching?

This is writing. This is printing. This tells us of all the things we ought to know in the world. And also that we ought to want to know.

What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?

They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to have a degree. And thus the world was deprived of some excellent gardeners, bakers, antique dealers, sculptors, and writers.

A teacher isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

Respect those who grew up and learned alongside you. Respect those who taught you.

she considered the possibility of telling her about everything that was happening, but then she changed her mind; people never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.

When a teacher helps someone to discover something, the teacher always learn something new too.

Life is not a long vacation, but a constant learning process.

People never learn anything by being told, they have to findout for themselves.

Graduates leave university and can't find a job. Old people reach retirement and have almost nothing to live on. Grown-ups have no time to dream, struggling from nine to five to support their families and pay for their children's education, always bumping up against the thing we all know as harsh reality.

That was the glory of man - to nurture and maintain knowledge.

What is learning: accumulating knowledge? Or transforming our lives?

Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the most important lesson we can learn is how to love. How to love better.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.

I do not know when it is that the joy fades out of school for most children, so that they end not only by hating school but even worse, by hating books, and this is grave indeed, for in books alone is the accumulated wisdom of the whole human race, and to read no books is to deprive the self of ready access to wisdom.