Quotes About Education

As crianças são estancadas na frente dos seus aparelhos digitais e televisões enquanto os pais fazem o jantar, as tarefas domésticas ou trabalham em casa. As crianças podem aprender a música de um personagem de desenho ou reconhecer letras e números, mas, ao contrário do que muitos pais acreditam, elas não aprendem linguagem assistindo TV.

when you ask children why homework is important, they will tell you ("so I can learn," "so I will get a better grade"). They can then decide how much time they need and when is the best time for them. (Parents usually want their children to do their homework as soon as they get home from school. Children would usually like some downtime first. When children get some choice, they feel empowered.)

Remember that while repetition may be boring to you, it isn't to your child. Babies and toddlers learn through repetition, which is why routines are such an effective and important teaching tool for this age group.

In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

For someone so very good at math, it's stunning to discover how you struggle with single digits.

Then, a female was politically classed with infants, idiots, and lunatics, as 'naturally incapacitated… and therefore… so much under the influence of others that [she] cannot have a will of her own'.3 That is why there were such strict regulations governing her behaviour at university (and beyond), not only to protect her moral and physical welfare, but to defend good men, such as undergraduates and lecturers, from temptation and involuntary folly.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

As the economy began to improve in the early 1940s, she made small deposits into five local savings banks for Kiki's education. Having lived through the crash, when banks closed their doors and customers' deposits vanished, she was unwilling to entrust all her savings to a single institution.

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

A good teacher does not teach all that he knows. He teaches all that the learners need to know at the time, and all that the learners can accountably learn in the time given.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

Lessons in "eating American," it was thought, would not only breed good citizens but also improve the morale, scholarship, and health of the students.

Someone can always take your money or belongings from you, but no one can ever steal your education.

Ida knew that she was fighting ignorance and superstition every bit as much as she was fighting poor hygiene and disease.

In our daily lives we "know" things in many different ways. We know, for example, that water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit

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I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.

medicine I know. you tell me what a pulsar is and I'll tell you whatever you need to know about the organ of Zucker-kandl." Sulu made a polite scoffing noise and explained anyway,...

The more you know, the better armed you'll be for what's to come.

Understanding the fundamentals of accounting is a form of self-defense.

Aristotle was convinced that a trained memory helped the development of logical thought processes.

Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.