Quotes About Education

When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.

It's like she's pulling Post-it notes out of her hair and lecturing from them, one of my peers once complained about the teaching style of my beloved teacher Mary Ann Caws. ...Ditto Eileen Myles, who tells a great story about a student at UC San Diego once complaining that her lecturing style was like 'throwing a pizza at us.' My feeling is, you should be so lucky to get a pizza in the face from Eileen Myles, or a Post-it note plucked from the nest of Mary Ann Caws's hair.

What I wish I had known, aged twenty-one, as I cycled away from the results board towards the meadow by the river in Cambridge, where I would throw stones into the water and cry, is that nobody ever asks you what degree you got. It ceases to matter the moment you leave university. That the things in life which don't go to plan are usually more important, more formative, in the long run, than the things that do.

He is momentarily filled with a kind of pity for his son. What a task lies ahead of him: to learn literally everything.

Hamnet learns quickly, can recite by rote, but he will not keep his mind on his

She never liked school. The work she enjoyed, the lessons and the teachers. If only school could be just that. But the shoals of girls, forever combing and recombing their hair and snickering behind their hands. Insufferable, they were.

Please.' Esme stood. She clasped her hands together to keep them still. 'Miss Murray says I could get a scholarship and after that perhaps university and—' 'There would be no profit in it,' her father said, as he settled himself back into his armchair. My daughters will not work for a living.

You will look like an enthusiastic child telling his parents about the new things he is learning at school, and I'm positive the experience will be unforgettable for you as it was for me.

I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16 I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.

Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.

A University degree, four books, and hundreds of articles and I still make mistakes when reading. You wrote me 'good morning' and I read it as 'I love you'.

The spiritual perfection of man consists in his becoming an intelligent being—one who knows all that he is capable of learning.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.

When I have a difficult subject before me — when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools — I prefer to address myself to the one man, and to take no notice whatever of the condemnation of the multitude; I prefer to extricate that intelligent man from his embarrassment and show him the cause of his perplexity, so that he may attain perfection and be at peace.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.