Quotes About Education

Why does it scare me to think I might be ordinary? I remember when I started first grade and I could hardly pay attention for fear I wouldn't learn to read and write. I didn't want to be like everyone else. I didn't want to have to learn. I wanted to know everything already

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

George Elsey put it succinctly: "You can't sit around and wait for public opinion to tell you what to do. In the first place there isn't any public opinion. The public doesn't know anything about it; they haven't heard about it. The President must decide what he is going to do and do it, and attempt to educate the public to the reasons for his action.

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

Hatred must be a hard thing to learn.

You who had not been allowed to finish tenth grade but sent to be a frightened chambermaid, carried home every week armloads of books from the library rummaging them late at night, insomniac, riffling the books like boxes of chocolates searching for the candied cherries, the nuts, hunting for the secrets, the formulae, the knowledge those others learned that made them shine and never ache.

They found the library sadly lacking in texts they could use.

The societies kids naturally form are tribal. Gangs, clubs, packs. But we're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb.

I always understood that the idea of education was to get one's mind as sharp as it will come before the party starts. Once the heart gets going you need all the wits you've got, my goodness.

If you had a smattering of education you would realize that perfection of form can give validity to any sentiment, however preposterous.

Though he had earned two hundred dollars from a crop and was not working at the time, Lorenzo declined his uncle's invitation to return to Illinois because he was considering going to school

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.

Si las mujeres feministas insistieron en el derecho de instruirse, en el derecho de ejercer la razón, en no encontrarse en situación de minus valia ante el monopolio masculino de la cultura, era porque veían con diáfana claridad que no hay libertad sin conocimiento.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

Para ser inteligente, hay que empezar desde chica. To be intelligent, one must start young.

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe ' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.