Quotes About Education

the American-affiliated students were incomparably better informed than the locals—incomparably more intelligent all round, to put it bluntly—but the one thing the Americans could not do to save their lives was recite the verse in front of them.

I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

It's always the ones who wring their hands demanding that someone defend, protect or educate the children, who are the most ruthless murderers of childhood.

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

a college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes

Dans le « programme des examens » les choses ne se passent pas comme dans la vie.

There was a Lao proverb that called teachers the engineers of the soul

So, there it was in a nutshell. Poverty led him to religion, religion to education, education to lust, lust to communism. And Communism had brought him back full circle to poverty.

She doesn't drink when she's driving. Best move I ever made, teaching her the basics of the internal combustion engine. Saved my life on a number of occasions.

So, there it was in a nutshell. Poverty led him to religion, religion to education, education to lust, lust to communism. And communism had brought him back full circle to poverty. There was a PhD dissertation waiting to be written about such a cycle.

During the few minutes that Lewis was away, Morse was acutely conscious of the truth of the proposition that the wider the circle of knowledge the greater the circumference of ignorance.

It is better to conceal ignorance.

Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.

How does one instill curiosity? Without it this 'educational' process is a continual struggle between a student who is trying to get by and a teacher who is trying to catch him at it, neither profiting.

Students don't learn by being lectured at; then learn by thinking hard, solving problems and dissecting proofs.

Money does not guarantee excellence. Although university salaries and faculty quality are correlated, the correlation is far from perfect.

Sir William Osler, the first Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School and a unique teacher and clinician, said: "One of the first duties of the physician is to educate… [people] not to take medicine." You should not assume a physician is inadequate if he does not give a prescription at the end of your visit.

Dr. William J. Mayo, one of the founders of Minnesota's Mayo Clinic, remarked: "One meets with many men who have been fine students, and have stood high in their classes, who have great knowledge of medicine but very little wisdom in application. They have mastered the science, and have failed in the understanding of the human being.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Children are our greatest natural resource.

Not-learning is the conscious decision not to learn something that you could learn.