Quotes About Education

Read professional material as well as leisure material; allow students to see reading as a lifelong and life-enhancing activity.

Good readers perceive reading as something they will do for their entire life, not just to pass a class.

That's what teachers get paid for, isn't it? How am I supposed to know when I don't get something? I'm just a kid.

I'm sick and tired of you telling the class that it's our job to know when we know and know when we don't know You're the teacher. Aren't you the one who is supposed to know

students don't expect to understand what they read.

They wait to be told what it is they have read. If no one does that, they just don't get it.

A child learns by growing, an adult learns to grow.

President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules, should have a fair shot at the American dream.

Oprah got her money," she snapped. "You trying to get YOURS! No, turn off that fuckin' TV and get to studying!

Decades of behavioral blunders and ill-conceived marriages and businesses run amok had left next to nothing by the time Leonard was in high school. He'd wangled himself an engineering scholarship to Cornell and then a job with Dow Chemical during a time he referred to, reverently, as the Dawn of the Absorbency Revolution.

Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.

Eventually I understood that a man in possession of Bildung was more than merely cultivated: he was ideally purified by humanism, an aristocrat of sensibility and wisdom.

Brilliant students make good aides.

The feminist challenge was sweeping: it embraced education and occupation, together with legal, political, and social status. It even dared broach the subject of equality in personal, and especially matrimonial, relationships. Such assertiveness was more unsettling than the racial threat because it was more intimate and immediate: few white men lived with blacks, but most lived with women.

The English," said MacWilliam, a trace of Highland accent appearing for once in his speech, "are not by and large an educated people.

Destruction and suffering are the school of social thought.

Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable.

I'm not as interested in dispensing knowledge on how to make a living ass I am in helping young people learn how to make a life...

Learning Clinical Hypnosis: An Educational Resources Compendium

A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.

School never teaches you about this mangled human slime, it slays me. You spend all your time learning the capital of Surinam while these retards carve their initials in your back.

I used to worry myself nearly crazy about money—about how I was to make ends meet and pay for Emmie's education—but not now." She hesitated and then added in a lower voice, "You've taught me to trust God and enjoy my daily bread, that's why I said don't let's think about the future." "....We'll trust God and enjoy our daily bread together.

I reply, with all the firmness at my command, that I have certain duties to perform. They may not be spectacular, but they are my small contribution to our war effort . . . and Betty must be educated. . . . Guthrie says, "Why must she be educated? I hate well-educated women, they are always boring.

she says she is delighted to have twins because they will be such nice companions for each other. They will do everything together, of course. The only thing that worries her is that she does not see how she and Jack can possibly afford to send them both to Eton . . . and it would never do to send one and not the other. I suggest that she should leave the future to look after itself.