Quotes About Education

Of course, learning is strengthened and solidified when it occurs in a safe, secure and normal environment.

Books knew more than you did, as a rule.

Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth you have to cut yourself to theirs.

she was a book lover who enjoyed reading aloud to her baby. She liked the idea that, even before he understood them, he might begin with the most beautiful words, that he'd build language from a foundation of literature and poetry.

Lydia is constantly reminded that her education has no purchase here, that she has no access to the kind of information that has real currency on this journey. Among migrants, everyone knows more than she does. How do you find a coyote, make sure he's reputable, pay for your crossing, all without getting ripped off?

It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber. If love comes from the heart, where does hate come from? Children aren't born knowing how to hate. They must be taught. Therefore, the lesson is simple. Let's not teach our children hatred and prejudice, because what they don't know won't hurt them — or others. PEACE IS PATRIOTIC.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is it Pliny, is it Buffon? No—it is Robinson Crusoe.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Surrealism, although the courses of literature paradoxically make room for it today, is not a discipline that can be taught.

Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.

Intr-o faimoasa previziune, A. Huxley a ironizat spiritele prefabricate: de la nasterea sa, copilul este conditionat prin difuzoare care ating subconstientul sau, apoi de scoala si societate care il orienteaza infailibil spre sertarul care ii este destinat. El a propovaduit educatia contra propagandei: formarea spiritelor inzestrate cu putere de alegere, a oamenilor constienti si responsabili.

L'ultime réponse à la violence et à l'agressivité serait donc un vrai projet de civilisation, lequel n'en est encore qu'à ses débuts mais qui devrait – qui devra ! – devenir, à travers l'éducation et la télévision, la priorité des priorités ! Un processus

I've been going insane reading my students' papers. Apparently several of them think the Hubble Space Telescope is used to search the universe for hubbles." ~ Ithana Aaronson

A history lesson disguised as a story,

Apparently several of them think the Hubble Space Telescope is used to search the universe for hubbles.

papers. Apparently several of them think the Hubble Space Telescope is used to search the universe for hubbles.

A person who thought he knew everything simply didn't understand how much there was to know.

The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers. Teaching is a calling, too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy--angles leading their flocks out of the darkness.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.

The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)