Quotes About Education

My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.

Johnson Middle School,

Many troops were far more proficient in PowerPoint than they were with firearms, so

I love to read

All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

I am not willing that this discussion should close without mention of the value of a true teacher. Give me a log hut, with only a simple bench, Mark Hopkins on one end and I on the other, and you may have all the buildings, apparatus and libraries without him.

A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.

Well we can't teach 'em, better pass 'em. Let those eradicate who can Man's inhumanity to man Through teaching boys to kiss the Flag, Keep their rooms tidy, kick a fag, Follow the leader, mind the rules, Blunt and ignore the only tools That interest the half-mature.

Well, now, some people learn a little quicker than others. It's nice to learn fast but it's nice to take your time too.

Before you're ready to tell that story well, you might have to study and learn the equivalent of an entire specialized college education on the society in which your story takes place, because all sorts of things were happening that you need to understand before you can even begin to tell a story in that milieu.

If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.

La introducción en un campo de conocimiento es más un adoctrinamiento que un estímulo del pensamiento crítico-científico. El tiempo de aprendizaje —en la ciencia tanto como en la industria, el arte o la religión— se caracteriza por una «sugestión de ideas puramente autoritaria».

The purest and noblest exaltation of our ideal in the hearts of the people is a constant and intrepid education; a cautious but vigorous preparation for the armed insurrection.

1. Per educare occorre proporre adeguatamente il passato.

2. Seconda urgenza: il passato può essere proposto ai giovani solo se è presentato dentro un vissuto presente

3. La vera educazione deve essere un'educazione alla critica.

La prima cosa che l'educatore deve fare è aiutare il cuore dell'educando a domandare al mistero dell'Essere, che costituisce l'altra sponda del flusso, perché abbia a rispondere, ma prima ancora abbia a sollecitare più attivamente, più compostamente, sempre più compostamente, sempre più chiaramente gli aspetti dei problemi che la libertà esprime, esplicita.

He hadn't enjoyed school all that much, but they could have warned him that language would prove overtaxing.

El profesor señala con el dedo a un alumno y le dice: «¡Refúteme a Buñuel!» Y es cuestión de dos minutos.

From Hunayn ibn-Ishak (Diogenes,8), we learn about his view of women and education: when he saw a man teaching a girl how to read and write, he advised him not to make a bad thing even worse.