Quotes About Education

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

Education, all smoothly say, is the production of useful citizens. But, good God, what on earth is a useful citizen just now?

Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went. He was married and added five children to the population, Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation, And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education. Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.

As a man is taught, so he believes. Thoughts being things, they may be planted like seeds in the mind of the child and completely dominate his mental content. Given the favourable soil of the will to believe, whether the seed-thoughts be sound or unsound, whether they be of pure superstition or of realizable truth, they take root and flourish, and make the man what he is mentally.

I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.

I feel like I owe Juilliard everything... coming from Kentucky at age 17, having a school like that giving me a chance. And if you cant afford it, you can get a scholarship.

If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible.

Children should be given the chance to play instruments, to sing.

If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.

If you can't go to secondary school, the boys get to go and the girls don't, you're locked into a cycle of poverty, because you don't have a chance.

Wherever we are, we can improve our chances of getting ahead by keeping a book in hand

... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us a faculty that can pass our Master's exams."

I give out Atlas Shrugged as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it.

Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations

You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

Learning is too precious to be motivated by coercive tactics.

Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

I started in a business background, but then it was like, 'you know, I can't do math,' so I changed it to a liberal arts degree and got my Bachelor of Arts in Communications and it made sense.

The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.

One day is enough to master reading in Korean. Hangeul is a very scientific and convenient alphabet system for communication.

The ability to communicate is not something we are born with. We have to learn it and earn it.

Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.