Quotes About Education

The more you can explain about the way your new learning relates to your prior knowledge, the stronger your grasp of the new learning will be, and the more connections you create that will help you remember it later.

Pitting the learning of basic knowledge against the development of creative thinking is a false choice. Both need to be cultivated. The stronger one's knowledge about the subject at hand, the more nuanced one's creativity can be in addressing a new problem. Just as knowledge amounts to little without the exercise of ingenuity and imagination, creativity absent a sturdy foundation of knowledge builds a shaky house.

Spaced and interleaved exposure characterizes most of humans' normal experience.

In testing, being required to supply an answer rather than select from multiple choice options often provides stronger learning benefits. Having to write a short essay makes them stronger still. Overcoming these mild difficulties is a form of active learning, where students engage in higher-order thinking tasks rather than passively receiving knowledge conferred by others.

When you space out practice at a task and get a little rusty between sessions, or you interleave the practice of two or more subjects, retrieval is harder and feels less productive, but the effort produces longer lasting learning and enables more versatile application of it in later settings.

Rereading text and massed practice of a skill or new knowledge are by far the preferred study strategies of learners of all stripes, but they're also among the least productive.

The main problem was I don't like people in general and people my age in particular, and people my age are the ones who go to college.

I have traveled widely. I have seen this country in its infancy. I tell you what it will become. The public squares will be occupied by an uneducated class who will not be able to quote a line of Shakespeare.

Skills pay bills, degrees pay fees.

I hope that as a totally literate human being that you don't even know what "illiteracy" is because it simply doesn't exist in your world.

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best - it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money - provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

The deepest dependency is not of students upon teachers, but of teachers upon students.

I think of Christians who, having been raised to read the Genesis creation story as literal science and history, leave for college, watch the History Channel, or log onto the internet, and find out that fossils and radiometric dating are in fact not hoaxes. That's how nice Christian college freshmen become atheists by Christmas break. If your faith can unravel that quickly, it's enough to make you question whether your faith is worth the effort at all.

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Humans can do anything if they have enough determination. And knowledge. Knowledge is the key to everything.

knowledge is a true power in any society

I've withdrawn her university permit so she doesn't continue spreading that kind of sedition among impressionable young minds.