Quotes About Education

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

Si realmente quieren saber sobre el futuro, no le pregunten a un técnico, a un científico o a un físico. ¡No! No le pregunten a quien escriba en código. No, si quieren saber cómo va a ser la sociedad en 20 años, pregúntenle a la maestra de un jardín de niños.

As computers replace textbooks, students will become more computer literate and more book illiterate. They'll be exploring virtual worlds, watching dancing triangles, downloading the latest web sites. But they won't be reading books.

Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.

It's easy to mistake familiarity with computers for intelligence, but computer literate certainly doesn't equal smart. And computer illiterate sure doesn't mean stupid. Which do we need more: computer literacy or literacy?

As much as I love computers, I can't imagine getting an excellent education from any multimedia system. Rather than augmenting the teacher, these machines steal limited class time and direct attention away from scholarship and toward pretty graphics.

I've just about stopped using the computer in class, because the kids are so distracted by the computers themselves," Ms. Valentine concludes. "I think it's the corporate world manipulating the public school system. It's a big show.

Weaned on educational games and multimedia encyclopedias, kids naturally seek out the trivial when forced to read books. While visiting a school librarian, I listened to a high school senior seek help with an assignment: "I'm writing a report about Napoleon," he said. "Can you find me a thin book with lots of pictures?

Cryptology is a game of decoding. But it doesn't require high intellect to unravel what the less educated have encoded.

Learning is a continuous process. There is no growth without learning.

An elementary pupil was asked by the teacher about her view of writing. The little girl said, Good writing requires a good vocabulary. A good writer requires a good conduct in many ways.

Education is immaterial only when you know that you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

People who have aged and died with lack of education do not make them less of a person. But for the new generation who are fresh and offered greater education, there is discernment that they can do better and achieve greater heights.

School children are not taught about the bullish and bearish trend in stock market. If bullied, act bearish. That's the best way to cope with the situation. Being bearish can save lives.

Reading to small children is a specialty.

As for those who think they don't like to read, well, I know they're making a mistake, just as all of us do when we try to judge ourselves. Now is the time to give reading a chance, for if you don't get the habit when you're young you may never get it. And if you don't get it, you may grow up to be just as dull as most adults are.

We all die uneducated. But at least we will not feel quite so lost, so bewildered. We will have disenthralled ourselves from the merely contemporary. We will understand something—not much, but something—of our position in space and time.

People who believe in The Truth often read one book or a group of books all their lives. For them the last word has been uttered by, say, Thomas Aquinas or Adolf Hitler or Friedrich Nietzsche. Hence they stick to their particular Bible and wear it to shreds. Such readers are almost always psychopaths. A one-book man is a dangerous man and should be taken in hand and taught how to diversify his literary investments.

Dangerous things, books." "Look what it did to your brain.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

Pygmalion: "A comedy about a man who turns a girl into a lady, but in doing so overlooks the woman.

Leaving aside the consideration that academics might always favour poetic difficulty—it makes them indispensable—

But the time has already arrived when such a joke does not register as funny. What have we gained, except a classroom in which no one need feel excluded?