Quotes About Education

Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

Everything is a learning experience.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.

African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience.

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.

My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for.

Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education.

Experience is the opposite of education.

I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

I enjoy tutoring. I just really enjoy the experience of teaching.

The most important thing whenever we're connecting kids to books, is that we try to match the book to the kid and make sure that reading is a fun, rewarding experience outside the classroom.

Experience is the thing of supreme value".