Quotes About Education

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.

I'm a sarcastic person. I learn through humor.

I've got daughters. Nine years old and six years old. First of all, I'm gonna teach them about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them PUNISHED with a baby.

Before I came here, I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture, I am still confused -- but on a higher level.

Ignorance is not linear, it's exponential.

I think if there was a boarding school for personality makeovers, you'd probably get a scholarship.

I love libraries. Everybody there is serious and focused even if they are not absorbing or learning anything better

This college would probably have the same problem as the last one did."I frowned, "What's that?""Homework.

I won't say that all senior citizens who can't master technology should be publicly flogged, but if we made an example of one or two, it might give the others incentive to try harder.

...as the old saying goes: if you teach a man to fish, he will feed himself for a lifetime. But if you just give him a fishing pole, he'll have to teach himself.

Myrtle Mae, you have a lot to learn, and I hope you never learn it.

Teaching middle school is an adventure not a job.

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it in summer school

The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown.

The only working model of socialism I have ever seen is in an elementary school classroom.

MY FRIEND: SO DO YOU TAKE A FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASS?ME: SURE DO HAVE BEEN FOR THE LAST 13 YEARS.MY FRIEND: COOL WHAT LANGUAGE?ME: MATH.

Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.

It's true that journalism in reality is not the journalism that we learnt in the university. It is far from it.

God, how I hate the fact that I know this stuff. It only proves that it is possible to learn by osmosis.

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our imagination.