Quotes About Education

We have very strong intuitions about all kinds of things — our own ability, how the economy works, how we should pay school teachers. But unless we start testing those intuitions, we're not going to do better.

Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

The invisible hand follows profit, and works less well at providing for needs where the route to making money is less obvious. Aware of this limitation, Smith believed that the state should pay for things like public education to stop people from becoming too stupid.

As far as nanny work goes, I struck gold. Yet I was uncomfortable with being a college graduate and working as a less-cool version of Mary Poppins.

I'll whip you kids into shape." "Is that legal?" I asked.

But if we stop learning stuff," I protested, "we'll get dumber." "In your case," Andrea told me, "that would be impossible.

Naaaaaaayyyyy," said Pootie. "Milk comes out of goats?" I asked. "I thought milk came out of cows." "It comes out of goats, too, Arlo," said Andrea. Little Miss Know-It-All was proud of herself because she knew something I didn't know. I hate her. "See, we learned something already," said Mrs. Lizzy. "Goats

If there are six apples on a table and you take away four of them, how many do you have?" Mr. Cooper asked. Andrea was waving her hand in the air like she needed to be rescued from a desert island. "Two apples!" she said. "Because six minus four is two." Then she made her smiley smile again. "No," said Mr. Cooper. "If there are six apples on a table and you take away four of them, you have four of them, of course. You just took four of them away!

This was his idea: We should buy the school.

Please put those books away," Miss Daisy had to tell us. "It's time for reading.

PRINCIPAL SPENCE?!

My name is A.J. and I hate school. If you ask me, they shouldn't teach kids how to read and write in school. They shouldn't teach math. They should teach kids how to do tricks on their bikes. That's what I want to learn!

But I guess until somebody invents a computer you plug into your head, we'll just have to keep going to school. Bummer in the summer!

period. "Do you still think books are boring, A.J.?" she asked me.

The girl was wearing a backward baseball cap and a black T-shirt that said LED ZEPPELIN on it. "Yo!" she said as she hopped off her skateboard. "They told me I was supposed to be in Mr. Granite's class. Are you Mr. Granite?" "Yes," Mr. Granite replied. "Who are you?" "My name is A.J.," the girl said, "and I hate school." WHAT?!

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school? When we got to the all-porpoise

the man was Mr. Klutz, the principal of

funny. School

From now on we will focus on the four Rs: reading, writing, arithmetic, and rules.

would rather watch a ballet than go to school.

alphabet and making farting noises with my armpits. But we all had to take a dumb test