Quotes About Education

its almost as if he was raised by wolves, but wolves who knew the value of a decent education.

Maybe if you listen to Radio 4 enough from an early age, you just get educated subliminally

But like my dad used to say, the crucial thing about an education is the opportunity that it brings, the doors it opens, because otherwise knowledge, in and of itself, is a blind alley, especially from where I'm sitting.

the crucial thing about an education is the opportunity tat it brings, the doors it opens, because otherwise knowledge, in and of itself, is a blind alley

High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

My brother Francis wrote a letter in Greek to the headmasters of private schools, selling cooking stoves. When some wrote back that they could not read Greek, he sent them another letter – in Latin. This produced orders.

My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.

Much that passes for education ... is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

Not surprisingly, his father (who was unaware of how abusive he had been), took credit for Richard's high entrance exam scores, noting how successful his educational program had been. Richard's father's poorly controlled wounded self, which acted out sadistically toward him, was never openly acknowledged and thus both father and son were prevented from seeing how badly the father had undermined his son's sense of self.

In general, evangelical fear of liberal learning has contributed to what Mark Noll properly described as "the scandal of the evangelical mind"—which is, in Noll's immortal phrase, "that there is not much of an evangelical mind.

This same standard could one day be applied to Christian colleges vis-à-vis sexual-orientation discrimination.

Distrust of higher education has been an enduring feature of fundamentalism and evangelicalism.

Try This What did you learn during your first twelve years of education that matters in your life today?

Rather than counseling despair, educating for the unknown favors a vision of learning aggressive in its effort to foster curiosity, enlightenment, empowerment, and responsibility in a complex and dynamic world. It favors a broad and visionary reach for meaningful learning.

We are working so hard in this country on the details of school improvement that we don't always stop to consider the big picture—if we are actually working on the right things.

El currículo y los cursos deberían estar organizados no en torno a las respuestas, sino a las grandes ideas, preguntas y problemas para los que el contenido representa la respuesta.

The questions produced before studying the topic turned out to be much deeper and more exciting. It seemed that the formal study of the topic had quenched students' sense of its mystery.

Harpaz argumenta que las escuelas tienen que convertir lo extraño en algo conocido para presentar a los alumnos conocimientos nuevos, pero también volver lo familiar extraño, que incomode y desafíe las ideas simples y las respuestas insustanciales, un proceso delicado que tiene que detenerse justo cuando esté a punto de que el receptor adopte una postura defensiva rotunda.

In teaching for truly lifeworthy learning, might we hope to teach for wisdom?

The fixation on the heap of information in the textbooks is itself part of the problem because the world we are educating learners for is something of a moving target, itself as much unknown as known.

To think that we are spending up to $215 billion a year on dementia care in this country—far more than we're spending on any other disease—is infuriating when we consider that the vast majority of these dementia cases could have been prevented with simple lifestyle modifications early in the life cycle.

After sitting through my lecture on white supremacy—its origins, reach, and consequences—one of my students said to me, "I couldn't have taken another minute of that." I said, "Good, then it was the right amount."

You can keep me out of Harvard, but you cannot keep me uneducated. As long as there are books to read, I control my education. We will fight to dismantle the barriers in higher education, but we own the education of our minds.