Quotes About Education

Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.

There aren't two worlds, education and work; there is one world-life. Learning by hands-on participation .... should be at the heart of our educational perspective.

Een verschrikkelijke haat tegen leerboeken komt vlaagsgewijze over mij. staan niet in leerboeken de dingen beschreven alsof iedereen altijd geweten heeft dat ze zo waren? Niets blijft er in een leerboek over van de moeite, de twijfel en de wanhoop die bestaan hebben voor een bepaalde conclusie was bereikt.

Wat had je eraan, alleen feiten in je hoofd te stampen en daarmee over de smerige straten van Amsterdam te sjokken, met studiegenoten die vol platvloerse politieke ideeën zaten, die nergens anders op uit waren dan hun leermeesters te treiteren, en, zonder te genieten van wat ze moesten leren, hun kille wrok met allerlei onzin bot te vieren?

In elk geval komt er een tijd dat het christendom uit boekjes geleerd zal worden op school, net zoals men nu de mythologie van de Grieken en de Romeinen op school leert.

Al die beurzen, prijzen en stipendia,' zei hij, 'ben je werkelijk zo naïef te denken dat die bij begaafde studenten terechtkomen? Trouwens, wat is een begaafde student? Een begaafde kontenlikker, als je het mij vraagt.

One of the books scheduled for adoption, she pointed out, informed children that the United States had settled its conflict in Korea by "using the bomb." This apparent reference to nonexistent nuclear warfare was just one of 231 factual errors cited by conservative critics whose

It is the great glory of the quest for human knowledge that, while making some small contribution to that quest, we can also continue to learn and to take pleasure in learning.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

You know more about your child than I can ever hope to know, what advice can you give me to make a better teacher for her?

He who studies with a philosopher should take away with him some one good thing every day: he should daily return home a sounder man, or on the way to become sounder.

Stoic philosopher Seneca, about whom I will have much to say in this book, "He who studies with a philosopher should take away with him some one good thing every day: he should daily return home a sounder man, or on the way to become sounder.

The Climber did not interfere. He praised the education I had received, and approved greatly of our immersions, just after birth, by the Sages, adding maliciously that nothing so sharpened the wits as a passion somewhat out of the common. ("The Story of Princess Zulkais and the Prince Kalilah")

Many things can be cured with experience and training. Stupidity is not one of them. - Leon

Far and away the most important lesson to impart to the American mind and soul: regardless of our lifetime of education to the contrary, US foreign policy does not 'mean well.

The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.

True learning only occurs when you love the subject you are studying and then the acquiring of knowledge is effortless because it is also a pleasure.

I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make it through life.

I'm afraid I possess an unfortunate gap in my medical education of never having believed in much of that stuff. I've often wondered which, psychiatry or religion, has done more damage. Between them, they about owned it all.

He couldn't understand today. Who can? How can you pay a man a hundred thousand dollars a year to hit a baseball or put a basketball though a hoop—and pay a teacher only twelve thousand a year to teach a kid to become a citizen? Is that waste? Give it some thought.