Quotes About Education

I majored in sports management, and then I went to law school for sports law.

I am no police, I don't even have any educational degree, but I have a degree in life management.

If I look myself as a manager, I have lot more to learn.

New managers have to come from somewhere, everyone has to be a learner at some point.

I went to Manchester poly for two years.

I would like to see a mandate for social and emotional learning absolutely mandated in every state.

I hate having to read the manual.

I went to school for marketing for one year before I dropped out of college to make music.

We've established a free marketplace of teacher ideas and donor interests.

I was lucky enough to meet and marry Jean-Luc who is responsible for any education and culture I have today.

I'm an educated woman, and I don't believe in marrying off a 15-year-old girl.

But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.

don't spoil my learning process!

Everybody at a university was to her a professor, unless they were students of course, and therefore even worse.

How does she keep it up? How can Miss Hodge be a teacher and not use witchcraft at all? I use it all the time. How else can I have eyes in the back of my head?' 'One of the great mysteries of our time,' Chrestomanci agreed.

Play is our brain's favorite way of learning

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well-educated teachers and a sound educational program.

American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

Public education is not broken. It is not failing or declining. The diagnosis is wrong, and the solutions of the corporate reformers are wrong. Our urban schools are in trouble because of concentrated poverty and racial segregation. But public education is not 'broken.' Public education is in a crisis only so far as society is and only so far as this new narrative of crisis has destabilized it.