Quotes About Education

Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!'

I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.' – Socrates (after losing our quiz!!!!)

To read, to seek, to know.

To teach feels like you are a guardian of time itself, protecting the future happiness of the world via the minds that are yet to shape it.

I feel a swell of pride. This. This right here is why I wanted to become a teacher. To know that it is possible to change the world for the better, in however small a way.

School is a joke. But go along with it, because you are very near to the punchline.

By the time they [humans] had read enough books to actually reach a state of knowledge where they can do anything with it they are dead

I regret not having a gap year after university.

I like this job. I can't right now think of a better purpose in life than to be a teacher. To teach feels like you are a guardian of time itself, protecting the future happiness of the world via the minds that are yet to shape it.

We are being taught to think of a time different to the time we are in. Exam time. Job time. When-we-are-grown-up time.

He smiles a little. This is the point of being a teacher. A glimmer of hope where you thought it didn't exist.

The news should start with mathematics, then poetry, and move down from there.

I like this job. I can't right now think of a better purpose in life than to be a teacher. To teach feels like you are a guardian of time itself, protecting the future happiness of the world via the minds that are yet to shape it. It isn't playing the lute for Shakespeare, or the piano at Ciro's, but it's something as good. And goodness has its own kind of harmony.

Humans don't learn from history

To learn is to live

This. This right here is why I wanted to become a teacher. To know that it is possible to change the world for the better, in however small a way.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

'Friends' was an education in intelligent comedic banter in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a master's degree in comedy.

Montrose could have simply forbidden him to read such things. Atticus knew other sons whose fathers had done that, who'd thrown their comic books and Amazing Stories collections into the trash. But Montrose, with limited exceptions, didn't believe in book-banning. He always insisted he just wanted Atticus to think about what he read, rather than imbibing it mindlessly, and Atticus, if he were being honest, had to admit that was a reasonable goal.

Why use the most advanced communications technology in history to teach people basic geography, or how World Bank structural adjustment lending works, when we can instead show people idiots drinking donkey semen for money?

To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this: 1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason. 2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right. 3. Charity is immoral. 4. Pay for your own fucking schools.

In 1850, there were only eight graduate students in the entire United States.

Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one.