Quotes About Education

God, don't they teach you how to spell these days? No, I answer. They teach us to use spell-check.

On one side of the seesaw is my education. My nursing certification. My twenty years of service at the hospital. My neat little home. My spotless RAV4. My National Honor Society-inductee son. All of these building blocks of my existence, and yet the only quality straddling the other side is so hulking and dense that it tips the balance every time: my brown skin.

Teachers deserve respect, I explain. Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it? I blink at him, speechless. Because the world isn't fair, I think, but Jacob already knows that better than most of us.

In our world, Darija said, throwing aside the chapter she was marking up, there will be no semicolons.

Tutoring a four year old to get into an exclusive preschool made as much sense as hiring a swim coach for a guppy.

I've come to see that ignorance is a privilege, too.

There's no point in being able to know everything about wolves if you can't teach it to the people who need to learn.

Is Understatement 101 a course in medical school? Of course. It's the prereq for Lying Through One's Teeth.

Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.

I've come to see that ignorance is a privilege too.

People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.

No matter how educated you are, no matter how irrational it seems, you will follow a glimmer of hope. The

I look at her. "The first one sounds fair. The second one is fair. It's equal to give a printed test to two kids. But if one's blind and one's sighted, that's not true. You ought to give one a Braille test and one a printed test, which both cover the same material. All

But passive racism? It's noticing there's only one person of color in your office and not asking your boss why. It's reading your kid's fourth-grade curriculum and seeing that the only black history covered is slavery, and not questioning why.

The distribution of sadness . . . by this I mean the overrepresentation of Mexican-origin populations in the bilges of poverty, and among the undereducated, underemployed, and underrepresented who suffer from poor mental and physical health and lack protection. They are also overrepresented in penal institutions and as war casualties. —Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez, "Regions of Refuge in the U.S.

There is an old Latin saying, "Qui docet, discit" (He who teaches, learns). In many

There's no classes in elementary school, high school or college that teach people situational awareness.

Joe Schwarcz

The ancient Greeks did not have a good grasp of genetics.

Remember, however, that your willingness to change and your success is proportional to the knowledge you obtain. This

People know less about nutrition than any other subject.

This is especially relevant in light of a recent study of twelve thousand students between fifth and eighth grades that showed those who ate processed and fast foods had the worst skills in math, reading, and science.

Look, if you need sexy egg cartons to sell our eggs, then you need to educate your customers. We don't intend to patronize big oil just so we can sell eggs at Whole Foods.

Today's orthodoxy thrives on someone else doing the cooking. The single-service packet from the supermarket has replaced the sit-down home-cooked meal as the most common food choice. Easy foodism disengages people from the process and creates a level of food illiteracy unthinkable just a few short decades ago.