Quotes About Education

Studies have shown that women who are perceived as more attractive make 5 percent more at work and even get higher grades in school.

I never just assume that someone is going to come along and tell me everything I need to know, and you shouldn't either. You have to do your research, boo.

My brother has his swords, I have my books. A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Bilgi sahibi olmadan, fikir sahibi olunmaz.

You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.

The key principle of Jean Piaget's genetic epistemology is constructivism. Constructivism rejects old-fashioned rationalism: Knowledge is not made out of special knowledge-parts preformed in each individual knower at birth. It also rejects empiricism: Knowledge does not consist of epistemic pieces impressed on the knower by the environment, whether physical or social. Instead, the knower has to construct knowledge.

Piaget, J., & Garcia, R. (1989). Psychogenesis and the history of science. New York: Columbia University Press. (Original work published in 1983)

Social equality is not a subject to be legislated upon, nor shall I ask that anything be done to advance the social status of the colored man, except to give him a fair chance to develop what there is good in him, give him access to the schools, and when he travels let him feel assured that his conduct will regulate the treatment and fare he will receive.

The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation.

Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar of money appropriated to their support no matter how raised, shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian school...Leave the matter of religion to the family circle, the church & the private school support[ed] entirely by private contribution. Keep the church and state forever separate.

The framers of our Constitution firmly believed that a republican government could not endure without intelligence and education generally diffused among the people. The Father of his Country, in his Farewell Address, uses this language: Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.

burro, burrow: A /burro/ is an ass. A /burrow/ is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference.

Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterward.

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

To become educated is to move from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.

A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.

You cannot inherit experience

Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

Formal education will earn you a living, self-education make you a fortune.

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.