Quotes About Education

With very rare exceptions, textbook after textbook adopts the same mythology. If middle and high school students are being taught a false history, is it any wonder that they come to believe that African Americans are segregated only because they don't want to marry or because they prefer to live only among themselves? Is it any wonder that they grow up inclined to think that programs to ameliorate ghetto conditions are simply undeserved handouts?

We anguish over more school facilities and ignore the unlimited classroom that is our city.

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

There's no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom.

People educate each other through the mediation of the world.

There is no such thing as a neutral educational process

When Mark Twain was told in 1905 by the librarian of the Brooklyn Public Library that copies of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn had been removed from the shelves of the children's room, he replied, "I wrote Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn for adults exclusively, and it always distresses me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.

If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.

Many of today's students who are training to be traditional professionals will, in due course, be engaged as knowledge engineers. These new professionals will specialize in designing certain kinds of online service—we call this the 'knowledge engineering' model (section 5.7).

In 2010, half of Asian Americans 25 years old or older held bachelor's degrees, compared with 28 percent of the White population (Bureau of the Census 2011a).

Washing the men's clothes, caring for their rooms, serving them at table, listening to their orations, but themselves remaining respectfully silent in public assemblages, the Oberlin "coeds" were being prepared for intelligent motherhood and a properly subservient wifehood. (Flexner 1959:30)

Writing is essential to learning. One cannot be educated and yet unable to communicate one's ideas in written form.

Information can be harmful when you're not ready for it. ['The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes']

A high school English teacher who has been teaching for thirty years recently said to me, "My students today are nice and they're smart, but they can't engage suffering in any way. I try to teach them King Lear, or 'Letter from Birmingham Jail,' and they just don't want to think about real pain.

Psychologist and author Wendy Mogel urges parents to stick to a twenty-minute rule—spend no more than twenty minutes a day "thinking about your child's education or worrying about your child, period." Except in those cases when a child is having a significant academic or emotional problem, that's a good rule.

He who is unaware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.

Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing.

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing.

There was always a dim chance that the job could lead to employment on a real magazine, which might be fun; besides, college had taught her that the purpose of a liberal-arts education was not to train but to free the mind. It didn't matter what you did for a living; the important thing was the kind of person you were.

An intellectual might lose her virginity to a soldier in the park, but she could learn to look back on it with wry, amused detachment. An intellectual might have a mother who showed her underpants when drunk, but she wouldn't let it bother her. And Emily Grimes might not be an intellectual yet, but if she took copious notes in even the dullest of her classes, and if she read every night until her eyes ached, it was only a question of time.