Quotes About Education

You keep learning all the time.

Teaching English and teaching Writing are two separate things.

the future of science in this country will be determined by our basic educational policy.

Improvement in the teaching of science is imperative; for students of latent scientific ability are particularly vulnerable to high school teaching which fails to awaken interest or to provide adequate instruction.

They felt that all boys and girls should be able to feel that, if they have what it takes, there is no limit to the opportunity. A ceiling should not be imposed on a young person's educational opportunities either by limited family means or negative family attitudes.

as a people and a Nation we have not been properly appreciative of intellectual achievement. This awareness and appreciation is not something the Government can legislate into being. We must build it into our national consciousness through our educational system, and until we do, science and all other forms of intellectual activity will lack the firm foundation they require.

The bigots are winning," he said gloomily. "Both kinds of bigots…" The ambassador finished his sentence for him: "And the only losers are the learned." They all shook their heads.

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

I have an historical, a cultural, and a moral obligation to give back something to my country. So I became a teacher.

As the term wears on I sometimes feel undermined by a sub-textual doppelganger, a shadow Freud haunting the classroom.

SNOVNO VASPITANJE Ska?em s krova na krov I ogromnom mrežom za leptire Lovim tehnokrate birokrate Gnoseokrate Najlepše primerke stavljam U staklenke sa alkoholom I na ceduljama im ispisujem U?ena imena Pokazujem ih ?acima na ?asu Zajedno sa dinosaurima Gigantosaurima tiranosaurima Koji poslušno silaze Sa zidova u?ionice I ti sladiš moj san Vidim smeje ti se levo uvo Izaziva me jedna mirna bubica Moj poznanik nastavnik prirodopisa

The passion to teach, to share deeply experienced "lessons from life," is embedded in all literature.

There is still, I think, not enough recognition by teachers of the fact that the desire to think--which is fundamentally a moral problem--must be induced before the power is developed. Most people, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process.

There is still, I think, not enough recognition by teachers of the fact that the desire to think - which is fundamentally a moral problem - must be induced before the power is developed. Most people, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the individual far more suffering than happiness in a semi-civilised world which still

I joined the Pass Mods. class and studied the cyropaedia and Livy's Wars with a resentful feeling that there was quite enough war in the world without having to read about it in Latin

Daphne tried to convey to him that the likelihood of degrees for women at Oxford was a matter for satisfaction, perhaps, but hardly for excitement or ratification. Women's accomplishments in the University had long been equal, if not superior, to men's; degrees were not a privilege, they were simply what women deserved - their due, their right. She became very animated as she argued on this topic.

English lecturers... who treat the Americans as a race of barbarians without any history should be taken for a tour round Washington before they are permitted to speak!

In school you learned to write as if the reader Were in constant danger of getting lost, A problem you were taught to solve not by writing clearly But by shackling your sentences and paragraphs together. Think about transitions. Remember how it goes? Late in the paragraph you prepare for the transition to the next paragraph— The great leap over the void, across that yawning indentation. You were taught the art of the flying trapeze, But not how to write.

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

Those who can read, and don't, are only marginally better off than those who can't.

So medical schools churn out platoons of unquestioning, prescription-signing zombies.

education will be replaced with indoctrination.