Quotes About Education

You're all at least a year behind and …' 'And whose fault is that?' Callum said with erupting bitterness. 'Until a few years ago we were only allowed to be educated up to the age of fourteen – and in noughts-only schools at that, which don't have a quarter of the money or resources that your schools have.

Colin's dropped out and Shania's been expelled for no reason and

I continued to find it much easier to assimilate knowledge within the structured military environment than at college, for at training sites such as Mare Island, outside influences were kept to a minimum.  All I had to do was make my bunk in the morning, show up at the appointed classrooms, and focus on the subject at hand.  Others took care of the daily routine of life while we hit the books.

She sees afresh how knowledge feeds the soul and how minds laid open to well-crafted words grow richer; and she sees that, given the chance, the only limits to complex understanding are those imposed by lack of opportunity and damaged self-belief.

I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

Harvard doesn't consider anyone a loss until he dies without a diploma, because they say he can always come back and finish.

W]e must have the courage to break with traditional law, establish ourselves in our own way of life. We must do so harmoniously, cooperatively, and courageously. We must do so with the full conviction that those who are selfish, those who are ignorant— and they are not necessarily uneducated, but those profoundly ignorant—will be unhappy about the whole thing.

Your reality, isn't restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you're inside of

El verdadero sentido de la educación no es la acumulación de conocimientos, sino el enseñar a pensar. La libertad que toma conciencia.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be satiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.

That is, I feel, the concern of the educator - to teach how to be sensitive to the differences in ourselves as well as outside ourselves, not to supervise the memorization of facts.

The primary obligation of educators is to assist in the realization of each student's full humanity.

Fools never learn from their mistakes; Smart people learn from their mistakes; Wise people learn from other people's mistakes.

Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

Our public schools need people to show up and care more than they need the donations of benefactors. They need people who can contribute professional expertise mentoring students, assisting teachers, or even applying a fresh coat of paint.

We teach aspirational ethics. What I teach my students is, You're born heroic. I go into these animal studies, and heroism is actually in our nature. What you have to do is make sure that the system doesn't change you, that our educational system doesn't teach you to be willfully blind and to forget your aspirations, because that's the default position.

What if they gave a test and nobody came? What would happen if, on the day teachers hand out the No. 2 pencils, parents decide that no child of theirs will be left behind to fill in the bubbles?

The music we listen to, the books we read, the television programs we watch, all communicate to us a philosophy of life.

O fogo é um preciso aliado do homem mas é perigos para uma criança que não o saiba utilizar. Passa-se o mesmo com certos conhecimentos. À escala da humanidade os homens não são mais do que crianças, olhai o nosso mundo e vede como nos falta educação.

Your level of education. Oh, crap! A lie for a lie, let's say PhD . . . No, I'll just end up with a bunch of boring nerds.

A key point about how training differs from education, the class is focused on a specific topic.

I graduated with honors, which was ridiculous. Charm goes a long way in the liberal arts.