Quotes About Education

Por mais revolucionárias que sejam, disse, as pessoas não podem viver sem livros. Sem livros não compreenderíamos o mundo; sem livros não poderíamos desenvolver; sem livros, a natureza não pode servir a humanidade.

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

he seemed convinced that children's questions were much more important than those of an adult. He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one.

Few people here have any need of novels

Among the many things that made the Professor an excellent teacher was the fact that he wasn't afraid to say "we don't know".

The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one. He had a special feeling for what called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers.

And it helped that he forgot what he'd taught me before, so I was free to repeat the same question until I

and he seemed convinced that children's questions were much more important than those of an adult. He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

there was no shame in admitting you didn't have the answer, it was a necessary step toward the truth. It was as important to teach us about the unknown or the unknowable as it was to teach us what had already been safely proven.

People are always saying the humanities are dead so it's strange how many conferences there are.

We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

I'm still learning my craft.

Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.

It is ignorance of these subjects on the part of ministers and workers that has brought our evangelical theology to such a sorry plight.

The decent docent doesn't doze;He teaches standing on his toes.His student dassn't doze and does,And that's what teaching is and was.

Saving the forests is not only a question of money," she said. "There also has to be awareness and education.

All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in life was that I'd never again achieve anything as good, or pure, or noble, or true, as my O-level results.

she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

Of course you should study whatever you want. The written appreciation and understanding of literature, or any kind of artistic endeavour, is absolutely central to a decent society. Why d'you think books are the first things that the fascists burn?

When will you stop trying to educate me, I wonder? Never I hope.