Quotes About Education

Books don't harm kids; they arm them.

If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent and every adult caring for a child read aloud three stories a day to the children in their lives ,we would probably wipe out illiteracy in one generation" Reading Magic Mem Fox

Whatever happens in the world of school, continuing to read aloud to our children at home should solve most reading problems and will always be a lifeline to their happiness, their literacy, and their future. (Reading Magic)

The man who has never been flogged has never been taught.

Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge are not infused into us from without.

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

standardized tests are not based on general knowledge. As I learned during my investigation, they are based on specific knowledge contained in specific sets of books: the textbooks created by the test makers.

I was one of six undergraduate women majoring in computer science at a university of twenty thousand

If you are an educated person, you will need to be careful not to assume that uneducated people are too stupid to understand the Bible.

Ensinar a ler é sempre ensinar a transpor o imediato. é ensinar a escolher entre sentidos visíveis e sentidos invisíveis. é ensinar a pensar no sentido original da palavra "pensar" que significava "curar ou "tratar" um ferimento.

A escola foi para mim como um barco: me dava acesso a outros mundos. Contudo, aquele ensinamento não me totalizava.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school.

How can educators start to learn more about the home worlds of their actual students rather than learning generic information about the "groups" from which students come?

I was brought up in a tradition of reading and thinking at university that, in a sense, left the body out. It was all about your mind. That good writing didn't have a "self" in it, didn't have an ego in it. Oh my God, I had so much to unlearn when I became a writer!

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

Whenever judges of the highest state courts have actually examined the details of the "savage inequalities" that continue to be imposed on most low-income and minority students in the United States, they have virtually unanimously held that these conditions deny students the opportunity to be educated at the basic levels that are needed to function well in contemporary society.

Far too much research conducted at business schools today has little or no value to business leaders.

My heart was burning for home. For a moment I felt like crying out, but at the moment of greater pain my mother's voice came back to me. It was as if she was here and talking, Stay and take an education, boy. Take it in, That's the main thing.

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

Education is the key," he drilled into me. "Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.

reeducating and "re-righting" history

to `educate' us, to keep us mentally enslaved.

Fundamentalism is disastrously destructive because it is an inhibition of the very human impulse to understand, a closure of the process of education, a betrayal of the capacity that human beings have to think and act together. It is wrong because it tries to stop not just thought, but the society which makes thought possible.