Quotes About Education

You're a trainee, here to learn,' he said quietly, directly into the slightly pursed face. 'Therefore a certain teaching is necessary. Do you enjoy learning?' 'Yes, sir.' 'And how do you learn?' 'Sir?' 'The question is clear. Think about it, please, and answer.

Her high school marks were mixed. She barely scraped by, though she did well, but erratically, in history, languages and literature." "She only did what interested her," said Lacoste. "Lazy?" "Looks like it. Or at least, not motivated.

Surprised by Joy Professor

a time of education, and not all of it in a classroom. It was a time to experiment. To grab life. To consume at random, like the first time at a buffet. And then to stagger to a stop, overstuffed and nauseous. And sometimes unable to pay the bill. They got the drugs, the booze, the random sex and the consequences out of their system. And began to make more thoughtful choices. But some never quite managed to push away from the buffet.

Your vast well of ignorance is finally paying off.

How many times do we all have to do this? Get up, go to school, again? Before everyone admits it's a crap idea?

Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.

We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled. Every man was to be trained, not only to the use of arms, but of his wits also; and it is these which alone make the others effective weapons for the maintenance of freedom.

Education provides the fullest opportunities for fulfilling ourselves. It is the access to all that a person has yet to learn.

Good teachers are to education what education is to all other professions—the indispensable element, the sunlight and oxygen, the foundation on which everything else is built.

That education is the most important of all professions is a message the public should hear and understand. And, as importantly, a message that our educators need to hear as well.

The future belongs to the educated.

The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding teacher.

If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.

Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning -- the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind.

write clearly, to refrain from obscure allusions or from supposing that my audience possesses any prior knowledge

Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school.

I've never understood how so many barely literate people read the Bible so much. It's hard. In the same way it surprises me that uneducated seamstresses all over the world can figure out how to put in sleeves and zippers.

I've never understood how so many barely literate people read the Bible so much. It's hard.

If there is ever anything you want to know, you just ask me and we'll find the answer in a book." This was a wonderful thing to hear and I believed her.

Good teachers are door openers in to that wisdom you already have inside

Audiences must be educated, too -- in a very gentle way, of course, but the relation of the audience to music is very mobile, very different. Certainly a Chicago audience can react differently from a Paris audience or from a Rome audience.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.