Quotes About Education

She still called it dinner, although the vicar had tried to educate her for years that the working classes had their dinner at midday, but the upper classes had luncheon.

My teachers at school said I had a good brain and wanted me to go to university, but my mother thought it was a silly idea. She said too much education was not good for women. They needed to know how to run a home and a family, and being educated only made them discontent. I'm afraid she's hopelessly old-fashioned in her ideas.

Next thing we know you'll be teaching Podge to say 'mirror' instead of 'looking glass' and 'serviette' instead of 'napkin.

Singularity University

Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.

A Reggae education for a healing of the nation

Suenan las voces de los estudiantes que se quejan, como debe ser, de todos los políticos habidos y por haber

Learning is not proportional to the distance from the board

Hand-wringing parents don't want their precious offspring looking at wieners and hoo-hahs when they're supposed to be amassing student debt, so they demand that the Termite Mound fix the problem by Doing Something.

I've always thought of school as a rehearsal. Not the main event.

One resourceful mom took her son's fixation on the video game Minecraft and made real wood "Minecraft" blocks for her son and the neighborhood kids to play with. This provided a connection between building things in the virtual world and building structures in the real world.

Even if we wanted to remake higher education," assert professors and administrators alike, "we don't think there is anything that can replace what we already have." Of course, the fact that in the past everyone claimed "this time is different," does not rule out the possibility that this time really is different.

Psittacus vbs alirum nmina discam: Hoc didic per m dcere, "Caesar, hav!

Richard A. LaFleur

There is only one child in the world and the child's name is ALL children. —Carl Sandburg

Dedicated to that amazing device, the Required Reading List, better even than artificial respiration for keeping dead authors alive.

some libraries are no longer called libraries but are known as Learning Resource Centers or Media Centers. Librarians, however, are still generally known as librarians and not yet as Learning Resourcists or Media Centerists, though this may be only a matter of time.

It is possible that librarians will be robots, controlled by Master Minds having mastery of a master computer at the Library of Congress. Or there will be no libraries and librarians, flesh-and-blood or otherwise. The onetime library patron will press a button and turn a dial on his TV, whereupon the requested book, in the desired language, will appear on the screen, the pages turning at the designated speed.

Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers.

We teach best what we most need to learn.

Nauki nigdy do??". Je?li masz wra?enie, ?e wiesz ju? wszystko, to jest oczywi?cie sygna?, ?e czego? nie wiesz.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best.

Convince them what a contradiction it is to be a Christian and yet to refuse to learn. For what is a Christian but a disciple of Christ, and how can he be his disciple if he refuses to be taught by him? He who refuses to be taught by his ministers refuses to be taught by Christ. He will not come down from heaven again to teach them by his own mouth, but he has appointed his ministers to keep school and to teach those under him.