Quotes About Education

We must also be careful to educate our sons and daughters when children are born to the women whom we've taken as wives. Striving to set the best example we can for our children will make us act even more nobly.

We're bound to be proud of the way our children turn out if they see nothing unseemly and hear nothing shameful. They, like us, will live in the light of all that's good, and their virtue—like ours—will be their strength.

People are always saying the humanities are dead so it's strange how many conferences there are. (p. 203-204)

In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.

Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans. Yann Martel in Life of Pi, Page 25

A zoo is a cultural institution. Like a public library, like a museum, it is at the service of popular education and science. And by that token, not much of a money-making venture for the Greater Good and the Greater Profit are not compatible aims.

Seperti perpustakaan umum, atau museum, kebun binatang bertujuan melayani bidang pendidikan populer serta ilmu pengetahuan.

shelf, stand mountains of neatly stacked cans and packages. A reserve of food to last the siege of Leningrad. CHAPTER 7 It was my luck to have a few good teachers in my youth, men and women who came into my dark head and lit a match.

I knew very little about the religion. [Christianity] It had a reputation for few gods and great violence. But good schools.

the establishment of a universal system of public education inevitably changed the relations of education to the state. It is this above all else which has caused the mind of our society to lose its independence, so that there is no power left outside politics to guide modern civilization, when the politicians go astray. For in proportion as education becomes controlled by the state, it becomes nationalized, and in extreme cases the servant of a political party.

For the immense extension of the scale of education and its ramification into a hundred specialisms and technical disciplines has left the state as the only unifying element in the whole system. In the past the traditional system of classical education provided a commo intellectual background and a common scale of values which transcended national and political frontiers and formed the European or Western republic of letters of which every scholar was a citizen.

the more widely we extend the range of education, the more necessary it is to provide some principle of cohesion to counterbalance the centrifugal tendencies of specialization and utilitarianism.

education has always meant the initiation of the young into the social and spiritual inheritance of the community: in other words, education has meant the transmission of culture.

I move.. I am.. I want ...I take.. I see ..I learn I grow ...I make

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that 'if English was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for me'.

Kids had made fun of him in elementary school because his father wanted him to be literate, not just functionally literate, or 'iconerate,' the new term for those who went through life using only symbols and key words for written communication.

Social criticism that addressed the real issue in higher education today - the university's assimilation into the corporate order, and the emergence of a knowledge class whose "subversive" activities do not seriously threaten any vested interest - would be a welcome addition to contemporary discourse. For obvious reasons, however, this kind of discourse is unlikely to get much encouragement either from the academic left, or from its critics on the right.

The "old priestly office" having been "abolished," Mann and his allies aimed to revive it, in effect, by promoting the school at the expense of the press, the lyceum, and other agencies of popular education. By giving the school system exclusive control over education, Mann's reforms encouraged a division of cultural labor that would weaken the people's capacity to educate themselves.

The truth is that there can be no proper training that does not educate the whole system of the man.

a boy learns better what he teaches himself....

Calling us men doesn't make us men. No creature on earth has a right to think himself a human being if he doesn't know at least one good book.

Malnutrition of the reading faculty is a serious thing.   Let us prescribe for you.