Quotes About Education

I spotted Elodin's name, then ran my finger back to where the title of the class was listed in fresh dark ink: "Introduction to Not Being a Stupid Jackass.

nearly half full, seating about two hundred students. The room was

You needed money or brains to get into the university, the more of one you had, the less of the other you needed".

But an exceptionally clever student could take a book out-side, thus bettering himself without fear of lessening his much-loved faculty of sight.

Fear tends to come from ignorance.

The desire for knowledge shapes a man,

Por lo visto, en aquella parte de la ciudad hasta los demonios eran educados.

Not knowing the difference between the two, I headed to the ones labeled STACKS. That was what I wanted. Stacks of books. Great heaps of books. Shelf after endless shelf of books.

Barbarians have no woman to teach them civilization. Barbarians cannot learn." I

Denna lifted her glass in a salute. "To the gullibility of the well-educated.

No creo que se pueda aprender todo de nada, y menos de un idioma.

The desire for knowledge shapes a man," he said.

It is every man's job to improve himself. A man without the benefits of education is hardly more than an animal.

What do they do to students at the University who eavesdrop?" Bast asked curiously. "I haven't the slightest idea. I was never caught.

We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

Learners who are successful may indeed be highly motivated. But can we conclude that they became successful because of their motivation? It is also plausible that early success heightened their motivation, or that both success and motivation are due to their special aptitude for language learning or the favourable context in which they were learning.

language is learned through our perceptual and cognitive experiences and that like all other aspects of learning, language learning involves the discovery, categorization, and determination of patterns through the use of language.

As Nick Ellis (2009: 153) put it, 'The language calculator has no "clear" button.' In learning something new, we build on what we already know.

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learners made more progress when they were given a simple rule and then worked together to find the correct possessive determiners (Spada, Lightbown, and White 2005).

Enhancing the input

research has shown that older children and adolescents progress more rapidly than younger children particularly in the early stages of learning. The knowledge and skills that older learners are able to acquire in a relatively short period of time will satisfy the needs of many learners whose goal is to use the language for everyday communication, to succeed on foreign language examinations, or to read texts for an academic course rather than to speak with native-like pronunciation.

all learners benefited from the deductive instruction regardless of differences in aptitude.

Decisions about when to start second language instruction in schools should be based on realistic goals and on realistic estimates of how long it takes to achieve them. One or two hours a week will not produce advanced second language speakers, no matter how young they were when they began. Older learners may be able to make better use of the limited time they have for second language instruction.