Quotes About Education

In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.

There is only one way to receive intellectual respect, and that is to earn it. A degree doesn't mean anything, as there are too many maleducated morons running around with them to impress anyone.

The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.

My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

People will respect what wrestling has to offer to this world. It will take educating themselves on more than just guys in there swinging for the fences.

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.

Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.

Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?

I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.

I ask the educational system, the parents, the church, and pillars of the community to help shape a new culture of honesty, patriotism, respect, discipline and service for young Filipinos.

... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.

I always wanted to be a teacher. I went to school to be a teacher. And I've always, you know, had this sort of romantic idea about it. But I'm worried about - I'm worried about education.

I've worked with freshmen that were easier than this.

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.

It would be very sad if children had no memories before those of school. What they need most is the love and attention of their mother.

The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something.

Experience is the best teacher- Personal but also vicarious

Teaching is really a natural extension of one's practice--one wants to share something that's so influential and beautiful in one's life.

At all times, among my friends, both young and old, English or American, I have always found eager listeners to the beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan, and in telling them I have also found that they were still unknown to the vast majority, and this has encouraged me to write them for the children of the West. Y. T. O. Tokio, 1908.

If you want to learn something, read about it. If you want to understand something, write about it. If you want to master something, teach it.

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