Quotes About Education

You cannot not know history.

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

Indonesia Mengajar offers a similar empowerment platform through education. It rigorously selects the country's top graduates, asking them to forgo potentially high-paying jobs in favor of teaching in remote village schools for one year.

British universities

In Wales, only about one in five inhabitants can speak Welsh (down from one in

more in Northern Ireland. The church places particular emphasis on religious education as well as devotion, though

Since 1992, a number of colleges (including some highly specialized colleges) have been awarded

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.

Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.

Paul was the only scholar among the apostles. He never displays his learning, considering it of no account as compared with the excellency of the knowledge of Christ, for whom he suffered the loss of all things, but he could not conceal it, and turned it to the best use after his conversion. Peter and John had natural genius, but no scholastic education; Paul had both, and thus became the founder of Christian theology and philosophy.

For grammar it [poetry] might have, but it needs it not; being so easy in itself, and so void of those cumbersome differences of cases, genders, moods, and tenses, which, I think, was a piece of the Tower of Babylon's curse, that a man shoult be put to school to learn his mother-tongue.

Who will be taught, if he be not moved with desire to be taught?

The Theater resides at the intersection of education and the arts. The arts are seen as a set of media with a potential for promoting profoundly educational experiences. They can allow for everyday concerns, so close and yet so distance, to be freshly apprehended… problems that must be addressed

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

The teacher-student relationship evaporated, replaced by a rich and lively exchange of equals.

Oxford was in love with the idea of Christian perfection.

Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school.

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

Anyone who thinks about it can see that for human beings the teaching and following of morality is something necessary.

I am an exemplary student, one who never misses a class, who almost always gets the best grades, who is the pride of his teachers.

En France, des centaines de milliers de personnes défilent pour défendre l'école privée, qu'ils appellent l'école libre. La captation, l'usurpation de cet adjectif me rend fou. Ma conscience politique s'éveille.