Quotes About Education

The achievement gap between children from high income and low income families is roughly 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than among those born 25 years ago. The class gap among students entering kindergarten was two to three times higher than the racial gap.

High-quality national surveys of high school seniors confirm that kids from less educated homes are less knowledgeable about and interested in politics, less likely to trust the government, less likely to vote, and much less likely to be civically engaged in local affairs than their counterparts from college-educated homes.

Most fundamentally, school systems need to put higher quality teachers in poor schools under conditions in which they can actually teach and not just keep order.

Rehabilitate ex-prisoners, keeping in mind that the prison population is comprised of young men with very little education, poor job records, and frequent histories of mental illness and substance abuse.

often within a single school, AP and other advanced courses tend to separate privileged from less privileged kids.

often within a single school, AP and other advanced courses tend to separate privileged from less privileged kids. Later on, kids from different class backgrounds are increasingly sorted into different colleges: for example, by 2004, kids from the top quarter of families in education and income were 17 times more likely to attend a highly selective college than kids in the bottom quarter.

today is a place of stark class divisions, where (according to school officials) wealthy kids park BMW convertibles in the high school lot next to decrepit junkers that homeless classmates drive away each night to live in.

cuando el alumno está preparado el maestro aparece (Bolsalegre)

A person cannot run and also learn. He must stay in one place for a while.

Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

I believe in teaching, but I don't believe in going to school.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

There are two kinds of teachers—the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies." (I hope I am remembered as a prodder.)

We go to school to learn what books to read for the rest of our lives.

But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.

Life will examine us continually to see if we have understood and have practiced what we were taught that first year of school.

In that moment of educational ennui, a freshman girl says, "I can bring a human brain to school if you want–my father has lots of them." (Talk about a full-scale class alert: She's going to do WHAT?!")

Learning came easy to him. Life did not.

Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others' experience.

Everything that happens to you is a form of instruction if you pay attention.

The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information - we internalize it and make it our own by finding some way to put this knowledge to practical use.

True ownership can come only from within. It comes from a disdain for anything or anybody that impinges upon your mobility, from a confidence in your own decisions, and from the use of your time in constant pursuit of education and improvement.