Quotes About Education

I feel like everyone who goes to The University of Texas is blessed and lucky to be there because they're getting a chance to be as good as they can be.

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

Chance favours the trained mind.

I think one should never be too busy to teach those who are anxious to learn.

Algebra, like laudanum, deadens pain, Fritz wrote.

Anyone would think we were some kind of free education service,' grumbled Joyce, having disposed of the child and returned to her central eyrie. 'That's just what we are,' said Helen. Joyce shot her a look in which surprise and indignation were nicely fused.

The blizzard of baffling and confusing instructions and information that falls upon every child everywhere assumes a Carrollian texture.

The visitors then turned their attention to the universities, where it was decided that the learning of the scholastics and the medieval doctors should be abandoned in favour of the humanist learning approved by Erasmus and other reformers.

Her principal tutor, Roger Ascham, reported that at the age of sixteen 'the constitution of her mind is exempt from female weakness, and she is endowed with a masculine power of application.

Campuses are bubbles, artificial environments that insulate students from the life of the competitive marketplace. The more exact truth is that our campuses offer students the privileges of liberty without the corresponding responsibilities.

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Effectiveness must be learned.

Every enterprise is a learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels—training and development that never stop.

Of all the important pieces of self-knowledge, understanding how you learn is the easiest to acquire.

Schools everywhere are organized on the assumption that there is only one right way to learn and that it is the same way for everybody.

Autonomous managers in a federal structure cannot be content with "reports." They must think through what top management needs to understand. And they must accept the responsibility for educating their top management.

Technology" does not necessarily mean "science and engineering." Techne, the Greek word from which "technology" derives, means, after all, "useful knowledge," or "organized skill," rather than "engineering.

We have to remember that we are not just giving students feedback; we are also teaching them to provide it.

What if instead we said, "Look at how you …" That would simply turn children's attention to the process and away from fixed-theory explanations.12

The last two forms of feedback, "You tried really hard" and "You found a good way to do it; could you think of other ways that would also work?" focus on different aspects of the process—effort and strategy—and not on the person.

First, it gets children into the habit of explaining successes and failures in terms of strategy use.

To be meaningful, teaching children to become literate is about the here and now, and what children can do with literacy to serve their interests.

Yet, pressures of testing and overstuffed curricula easily make us abandon meaningfulness and reduce our view of our work to mere individual cognitive skill building. It is easy to forget the need to engage the whole person in joint community activities that are socially and personally meaningful and emotionally satisfying.

knowledge is constructed, and that people play an active role in its construction.