Quotes About Education

Vocabulary and coherent sentences can't be downloaded onto paper unless they've first been uploaded to the head by reading

The lecture theatre - the place where information passes from the notebook of the lecturer to the notebook of the student without necessarily passing through the mind of either.

Perhaps all young girls should receive voice-deepening instruction, as they once had learned how to iron men's white oxford-cloth shirts and walk with books on their heads.

An Ursuline nun was the first pharmacist in Louisiana.

En épocas difíciles, me habían dicho desde niña, lee, aprende, prepárate, recurre a la literatura.

Through most of my life I would have interpreted the growth of the prison system and the diminution of the commitment to public education as evidence of how California had changed. Only recently have I come to see them as quite the opposite, evidence of how California had not changed, and to understand change itself as one of the culture's most enduring misunderstandings about itself.

All I know about grammar is its infinite power.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned.

Nei momenti difficili, mi era stato insegnato fin dall'infanzia, leggi, impara, datti da fare, rivolgiti alla letteratura. Essere informati significava non perdere il controllo.

That Episcopal day school Marin attended from the age of four until she entered Berkeley had as its aim the development of a realistic but optimistic attitude, and it was characteristic of Charlotte that whenever the phrase realistic but optimistic appeared in a school communique she read it as realistic and optimistic.

one more piece of evidence that assigned reading makes nothing happen.

Every word uttered at the Center is preserved on tape, and not only colleges and libraries but thousands of individuals receive Center tapes and pamphlets. Among the best-selling pamphlets have been A. A. Berle, Jr.'s Economic Power and the Free Society, Clark Kerr's Unions and Union Leaders of Their Own Choosing, Donald Michael's Cybernation: The Silent Conquest, and Harrison Brown's Community of Fear.

In time of trouble, I had been trained since childhood, read, learn, work it up, go tot he literature. Information was control.

Whoever had invented long division has a lot to answer for.

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

Scholars don't usually sit gasping and sobbing in corners of the library stacks. But they should. They should.

But I think it's useful to note that at any particular point in our lives our minds are full not just of our own memories but of the experiences of characters from the books we've been reading. That's if we are lucky to have the education and leisure to read at all. And the curiosity

Knowledge is currency here....

If knowledge was power I had under my possession the entire school

They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.

The master is not the one who teaches; it's the one who suddenly learns.

Desta vez, disse ele, vais para a Europa; vais cursar uma Universidade, provavelmente Coimbra; quero-te para homem sério e não para arruador e gatuno.

que, se a educação modifica a natureza, a natureza pode em suas exigências mais absolutas readquirir os seus direitos e manifestar a sua força.

Ask a kid who's struggling in math if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he feels like a moron. Ask the math genius if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he's sick of doing all the work during group projects. Sometimes, it's better to sort like with like.