Quotes About Education

But part of education of travel lies in seeing things with fresh and ignorant eyes -- and in being wrong. Which is why it's important to check in with that younger traveler from time to time, to retrace the journeys that remain vivid in my mind, to ask new questions of where I've gone before.

Computers don't kill books; people do.

The phones are smarter but we are dumber.

Moving Toward a Learning Conversation

If there is any hope for changing the world for the better, from reducing family violence to reversing overpopulation and international conflict, economists, educators, and political leaders will need to base their interventions on a sound understanding of what people are really like, not on some fairy-tale version of what we would like them to be.

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, why would we ask those who do not fear the Lord to teach our children?

Home education may not be the choice for EVERYONE, but home education IS a choice for ANYONE.

I am not an advocate for home education, but for Christian home education. You can train a child to think like a Greek, a pagan and an evolutionist in the home, and while under the care of parents, and the results may be little different from government school indoctrination.

The main function of a university is not to grant degrees and diplomas, but to develop the university spirit and advance learning. The former is impossible without corporate life, the latter without honours and post-graduate

People more often need to be reminded than informed.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Be awesome! Be a book nut!

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

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Claudia began her studies never doubting that she could become an authority that morning. She had neither pencil nor paper to make notes. And she knew she wouldn't have a lot of time to read. So she decided that she would simply remember everything, absolutely everything she read. Her net profit, therefore, would be as great as that of someone who read a great deal but remembered very little.

Sixth graders had stopped asking Now what? and had started asking So what? She had not been sorry to retire when she did.

So the Trustees of Ohio State were right in 1956 when they canned the English instructor for assigning Catcher in the Rye to his freshman class. They knew there is no qualitative difference between the kid who thinks it's funny to fart in chapel, and Che Guevara. They knew then Holden Caulfield would found SDS.

What Disneyland proposes is a technique of abbreviated shorthand culture for the masses, a mindless thrill, like an electric shock, that insists at the same time on the recipient's rich psychic relation to his country's history and language and literature. In a forthcoming time of highly governed masses in an overpopulated world, this technique may be extremely useful both as a substitute for education and, eventually, as a substitute for experience.

Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it

Mrs. Olinski was the first teacher Epiphany ever had who taught from a wheelchair.

I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them. It's hollow.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.