Quotes About Education

To reform the world - means to reform upbringing...

Literacy is one of the greatest gifts a person could receive

The purpose of my work is not to educate people, rather it is to enrich human life with self-awareness.

Every day we can learn something new.

It is better to be a reader than richer.

No one can do the learning for you.

Seek to learn. See to learn.

If you look at the world with eyes that wish to learn, you will see lessons everywhere.

When you want to learn something, all the life experiences conspire in helping you to learn.

Self education leads to self-development and self-liberation.

The greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe.

A book is a treasure of life.

A man ought to learn from his mistakes.

There is an intimate connection between our moral life and our intellectual life. Sometimes I think the history of our times can be described as an argument about whether or not this connection is true.

In a sense, we can tell a lot about anyone by looking at what books, if any, he reads, at what books are on his shelves. . . . I have always found books to be helpful, yet they must be good books.

Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours - all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life - it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat.

Desolina and Tony had attended one-room schoolhouses until the third grade. ... According to Tony, there were hardly enough pencils and sober teachers to go around. [Author's grandparents educational background.]

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

Paulo Freire of Brazil puts it this way: "It would be extremely naïve to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.

Ironically, Adolf Hitler displayed more knowledge of how we treated Native Americans than American high schoolers today who rely on their textbooks. Hitler admired our concentration camps for American Indians in the west and according to John Toland, his biographer, "often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America's extermination—by starvation and uneven combat" as the model for his extermination of Jews and Gypsies (Rom people).94

Critical thinking requires assembling data to back up one's opinion. Otherwise students may falsely conclude that all opinions are somehow equal.

If you truly want students to take an interest in American history, then stop lying to them.

When students are not asked to assess, but only to remember, they do not learn how to assess or how to think for themselves.

Benjamin Franklin had predicted as much nearly a century before, commenting that with the introduction of slavery, "the Poor are by this Means deprived of Employment, while a few Families acquire vast Estates; which they spend on Foreign Luxuries, and educating their Children in the Habits of those Luxuries; the same Income is needed for the Support of one that might have maintain'd 100."57