Quotes About Education

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That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

Before he can DECIDE to do good, his parents must CONDITION him to do good.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Prov. 22:6). Train up—not beat up. Train up—not discipline up. Train up—not educate up. Train up—not "positive affirmation" up. Training is the most often missed element in child rearing. A child needs more than "obedience training," but without first training him, discipline is insufficient.

Wouldn't it be better to take a little time to train him in his young and tender years? If nothing else, training will result in saving you time.

If parents carefully and consistently train up their children, their performance will be superior to that of a well-trained, seeing-eye dog.

No amount of discipline can make up for a lack of training.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

In the foyer of their building they displayed a large globe, one of the few in Philadelphia. On his way home from school each day, Hugh stopped in the office, spinning the globe on its axis, his fingers exploring the oceans and mountains of the world.

Academic freedom: It's great, as long as you don't use it."

He says that everything a cook needs to know—everything, mind you—is contained in five books: Escoffier, Larousse, Hering's Dictionary, La Repetoire. I tell him that's only four. "And Câreme," he says. He pauses. "No one wants.

Liberal education intertwines the philosophical and rhetorical so that we learn how to learn, so that we continue both inquiry and cultural participation throughout our lives because learning has become part of who we are.

The university should not be a cloister; it should be a laboratory that creates habits of action through inquiry laced with compassion, memory, and fidelity.

Beware of critics of education who cloak their desire to protect privilege (and inequality) in the garb of educational reform.

A deep commitment to general education is impossible in a context in which faculty and students prize above all their ability to teach and study what they want.

Education, from Addams' perspective, must not merely make us more adept at defending ourselves against those with different agendas. Education should increase our powers of empathy and our ability to act in concert with others.

Conant was concerned that the "particular functions" that might be assigned to young people would be dictated by the economic conditions of their families, and that over the generations this would result in ever-greater economic inequality. Such inequality would make it increasingly difficult for citizens to believe they had a "joint culture," and it would make the country more vulnerable to social unrest based on class division.

The day we stop learning is the day we die.

Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous

Wikipedia is the best thing ever.

Dee's search for knowledge was always his greatest strength... and his weakness.

True. If you tell people everything, you take away their opportunity to learn.

El día en que dejamos de aprender es el día en que morimos.