Quotes About Education

All time spent reading is time well-spent.

How teachers are evaluated will most certainly alter how teachers teach.

Compared to children raised in an intact, married family, children raised in single-parent or cohabiting homes are significantly more likely to suffer psychological problems such as depression, to get into trouble with the law, to become pregnant as teenagers, and to drop out of high school.75

For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much.

E. E. Bauermeister, supervisor of education and correctional counselor at California Institution for Men, Chino, California, who told the authors: "I always tell the men in our self-adjustment class that too often what we read and profess becomes a part of our libraries and our vocabularies, instead of becoming a part of our lives.

Read a minimum of four good books a year, a monthly magazine like The Reader's Digest, and your daily morning and evening newspapers.

Jefferson felt it should be the goal of the whole nation to use education and every other means to stimulate and encourage those citizens who clearly exhibited a special talent for public service. He felt one of the greatest threats to the new government would be the day when the best qualified people refused to undertake the tedious, arduous, and sometimes unpleasant task of filling important public offices.

The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people. No others can do this work and Negro colleges must train men for it. The Negro race, like all other races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

Ignorance is a cure for nothing.

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

Schools of business responded to popular demand for finance and creative accounting. The results are decline.

Definition of a College professor: someone who talks in other people's sleep.

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

For the teacher or coach, the question has to be how to give instructions in such a way as to help the natural learning process of the student and not interfere with it.

We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than we do, for our life in cities, which deafens or kills the passive meditative life, and our education that enlarges the separated, self-moving mind, have made our souls less sensitive.

and that he delighted in Flaubert and Pater, read Homer in the original and not as a schoolmaster reads him for the grammar.

For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.

The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois

The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. Nevertheless, men strive to know.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.