Quotes About Education

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I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it.

We're no longer intimidated by math, because we're slowly redefining what math is.

Students need to decide, 'All right, well, does the height matter? Does the side of it matter? Does the color of the valve matter? What matters here?' — such an underrepresented question in math curriculum.

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Continual learning is the key to continual living.

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life." —Author Unknown

We have sold ourselves into a fast-food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies. . . . Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves."7

If you stop learning you have effectively stopped living.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." —Jim Rohn

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." —Mark Twain

Continual learning is the key to continual living. If you stop learning you have effectively stopped living.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty." —Henry Ford5

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

It's a very good historical book about history.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth."

The dream begins, most of the time,with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth

Education is not about just planting a seed; it is also about nurturing, over many decades, a productive, meaningful, and happy life.

I remember Mexican children, the sons and daughters of migrant farmworkers, starting each fall at my elementary school. By the time we got to Thanksgiving, the harvest and livestock roundups were complete, and all of those schoolmates would be gone.

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy . . . in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, [and] Musick.

How do we expect people to participate in something they don't understand?