Quotes About Education

I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the quality of its museums.

The great museums may harbour the conscience for the natural world, not merely provide its catalogue.

German professors of that time were like God, only more frightening.

New developments in neurology provide biological explanations for how our learning is affected by our feelings.167 We learn best in stimulating environments when we feel sure we can succeed.

I don't know everything. And I like not knowing everything. Because then I can learn it.

One of her classmates asked a prisoner what was the worst thing about being there. "The first time they fuck you in the ass," he replied, and this was the first time that she and her classmates learned about that kind of rape.

One overly simplistic idea is that we can improve student performance by just by giving financial incentives to parents, teachers, or kids. Unfortunately, there is little evidence that such incentives are effective, but nuances matter.

This scoring system has no effect on the grade you get in the course, but it seems to make you happier.

Learning is most likely if people get immediate, clear feedback after each try.

As for information and educational campaigns, one of the main lessons from psychology is that it is impossible for such programs to be "neutral," regardless of how scrupulously designers try to achieve that goal. So to put it simply, forcing people to choose is not always wise, and remaining neutral is not always possible.

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

Teachers should prepare the student for the student's future, not for the teacher's past.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.

To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.

It is maintained by some that travel has no educational value, that a person with sensibility can gain as rich an experience of life by staying right where he is as by wandering around the world, and that a person with no sensibility may as well remain at home anyway. To me this is nonsense, for if one is a bore, I maintain that it is better to be a bore about Peshawar than Upper Tooting.

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

Know something about something. Don't just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.

People today do not know the difference between a bombardier and a brigadier

We need a revolution in academia, with every social science attempting to understand the causes of happiness.

So with Dr. Johnson and John Stuart Mill, and Spencer, and William Shakespeare, and Chaucer, and Milton, and John Bunyan, and others of that royal company of bards, thanks to my father and Mr. Gruffydd, I was acquainted, more than plenty of other boys, and thus had a lasting benefit in school.

She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.