Quotes About Education

Why can't we repeat 8th grace five times and call that a high school education?

... education is the second food a parent can give a child.

I make honorable things pleasant to children." A teacher from Sparta

Character is the main object of education.

If you want to know the value of a year, ask the student who was in the final year of his university education, when the lecturers went on strike and the school ended up closing for a year.

From our primary schools to secondary schools, to tertiary institutions, there must be a mass campaign to educate our people in the value of labour.

The goal of all learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents.

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America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

The notion of children being "kindergarten ready" is a bizarre oxymoron. It's like saying you have to know how to play the piano before you can learn how to play the piano.

Free and quality education is a fundamental liberty

To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!

The function of the educator is to discover in each individual child the gifts implanted in her by Almighty God and to develop and dedicate them to His service.

When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice.

One can earn a thousand credentials but remain unemployed.

School is a factory where the raw material called student is turned into a product called employee.

You know you are capitalism's ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom.

Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.

School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan.

Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.

In a classroom, when it's silent, they're thinking. You've got to give them time to think.

I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here.They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.

The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.

My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah said 'Educating the child is everybody's business.