Quotes About Education

I can imagine no more dissatisfied human being than an educated, cultured, and refined colored man in the United States.

In an astonishingly short time I reached the point where the language taught itself—where I learned to speak merely by speaking. This point is the place which students taught foreign languages in our schools and colleges find great difficulty in reaching. I think the main trouble is that they learn too much of a language at a time. A French child with a vocabulary of two hundred words can express more spoken ideas than a student of French can with a knowledge of two thousand.

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

Studying for 30-50 minutes at a time (with 10 minute breaks in between) is the most effective way to retain information.

If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.

Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.

Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.

Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.

I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves." Galileo Galilei, Astronomer, physicist and mathematician

We have over 500 000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesn't reimburse us on any of these things.

For the life and the future,it's more important to learn than to hate

Reading is a foundation o every knowledge an all the pure and the wise thoughts.

First a mean to gain knowledge and then the knowledge itself.

Att säga att man respektera 'en lärare' är meningslöst eftersom 'lärare' bara är en titel. Frågan är om man kan respektera människan bakom titeln.

It became clear to me that they expected children to submit to the school system and sacrifice their own interests, even if that would break their spirit. I

School always appeared to me like a prison, and I could never make up my mind to stay there, when the sunshine was inviting, the sea smooth, and when it was such a joy to run about in the free air, or to paddle around in the water." Claude Monet

Learning is not the product of teaching.

There is no difference between living and learning … it is impossible, and misleading, and harmful to think of them as being separate." John Holt

So you see that our schools are not failing, they're just succeeding in ways we prefer not to see. Turning out graduates with no skills, with no survival value, and with no choice but to work or starve are not flaws of the system, they are features of the system. These are the things the system must do to keep things going on as they are.

I explained that unschooling isn't a technique; it's living and learning naturally, lovingly, and respectfully together.

When people say that school prepares children for the real world, what's implied is that it is the difficult parts of school (doing things you don't want to do, forced interaction with peers, following rules that you don't believe in) that are important. What's implied is that the real world is going to be an unhappy place and that being treated unfairly by people is a part of life.

We all need help with education to go the right direction in our Life.

Discover the World give us more Education to Ourselves.