Quotes About Education

How can we begin to move schools to become places of more relevant, connected, creative learning? Even with a plan, it won't be easy.

Eric Hoffer sums up where our emphasis should be in schools right now: "In times of great change, learners will inherit the earth, while the learned will be beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists." Let

We have to stop delivering the curriculum to kids. We have to start discovering it with them." I

at least half of the time they spend on schoolwork must be on stuff that can't end up in the Friday Folder? That the reason they're doing their schoolwork isn't just for a grade or for it to be pinned up in the hallway? It should be because their work is something they create on their own, or with others, that has real value in the real world.

Before we can have a coherent conversation around what happens to schools, we need to get educated. We need to learn about modern, connected learning. And we've got to try to get others to do that work with us.

invited parents into a book study of Tony Wagner's The Global Achievement Gap.

The biggest challenge, Yong Zhao states, "is our mindset about what makes good education and the seductive power of the traditional paradigm." At the end of the day, as much as we may claim to value those other, more immeasurable things, we end up looking to old tests and scores to tell us how well our kids are doing.

Will Richardson

Let me tweak that just a bit: "In times of great abundance, learners will inherit the earth...." Imagine

It's somewhat ironic (and frustrating), then, that well into what is arguably one of the biggest, most transformative periods in history we still feel the need to point to a digital classroom in schools.

Don't teach my child science; instead, teach my child how to learn science — or history or math or music.

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.

There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.

There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin'. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.

You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

The problem ain't what people know. It's what people know that ain't so that's the problem.