Quotes About Education

Who knows the difference between education and training? For those of you with daughters, would you rather have them take sex education or sex training? Need I say more?

What teachers do actually matters. Their ideas count. They are agents for change in our schools.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

Growing up I didn't watch movies.

Convoluted and perplexing as it may seem, I have invariably found the simple people who never went to school, to be smarter, wiser and more knowledgeable than even the college professors. Education is a matter of having or not having opportunities; while the knowledge, smartness and wisdom must begin from within.

No importa qué tan alto nivel de educación, cómo viajó bien, y lo rico que eres; si no trata a las personas con respeto y dignidad, que es todo un desperdicio.

No matter how highly educated, how well-travelled, and how wealthy you are; if you don't treat people with respect and dignity, it's all a waste.

Physicist's wife asked him to read 'The Cat in the Hat' by Dr. Seuss to their child. The Physicist said that he had never heard of 'The Cat in the Hat' by Dr. Seuss, but he's very familiar with 'The Cat in the Box' by Dr. Schrodinger, which he would be happy to read to their child.

St. Andrews, Scotland, is one pf the most beautiful and scenic places that I have lived in. It's an amazing experience of my life. The University of St. Andrews is the oldest and most prestigeous University in Scotland, now more than 600 years old. I am proud of my past association with St. Andrews, and The University of St. Andrews....the best memories of my education in the United Kingdom.

You might be a Desi, if you join extension school of Ivy League for a part-time certificate program so that your LinkedIn profile shows the Ivy League stamp.

You should learn from the mistakes of others, because you can't live long enough to make them all by yourself.

Through a process of social conditioning, however, White children are increasingly taught to associate only positive qualities with their own race and negative ones with other racial groups. The process of our cultural conditioning occurs through significant others (Sue, 2003), our educational curriculum (Minow, Shweder, & Markus, 2008), the mass media (Cortes, 2008), and institutions in society (APA Presidential Task Force, 2012; J. M. Jones, 1997).

When people of color talk racism, Whites seem to interpret statements as a personal accusation, and rather than reach out to understand the content, respond in a defensive and protective posture. In many cases, even statements of racial facts/statistics such as definitions of racism, disparities in income and education, segregation of neighborhoods, hate crime figures, and so forth arouse defensiveness in many Whites.

multicultural education that has a strong antiracist orientation is of utmost importance in helping children to develop a nonracist identity.

Third, although formal education and training seems effective in combating explicit bias, it appears to have less success in ameliorating implicit attitudes.

Fourth, it may be that remediation is less effective than prevention and starting at a young age (childhood) to combat stereotypes may offer a more effective solution.

societal bias also impacts the standard of living by creating disparities in education, employment, and health care (J. M. Jones, 1997; Sue, 2010). Although people of color see the election of Barack Obama as a major milestone in the history of the United States, their lived realities continue to indicate that racism, bias, and discrimination are alive as well. It frustrates them that their White brothers and sisters are unable to see the world through realistic lenses.

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

For the first time in living memory, current generations of young people today are likely to be no better educated than their parents.

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

Her parents wanted her to find her own way in life. That's what they'd said countless times in the past. Of course, they'd been referring to school subjects and college applications and job prospects. Presumably, at no stage did they factor living skeletons and magic underworlds into their considerations. If they had, their advice would probably have been very different.

Miss Sorrows is a wonderful teacher. She really is so good at this. I'll never be half as good as she is. That's what she keeps telling me. She's magnificent. - NJ

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening.