Quotes About Education

Knowledge acquired outdoors always seems to have a greater, hardier wisdom than the stuff you find at a desk on a computer.

To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right.

At least I've had a man," Leah snapped. "And I've got a college degree and own a business, while you're serving coffee at your aunt's coffee shop. You want to continue keeping score of who's doing what, go right ahead, but I've got work to do.

Logically, you should go to school, get good grades, go to college, get a good degree, go into the workplace, then work hard and be happy. The only problem is that happiness isn't logical.

The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book." ( Introductory lecture as professor of Latin at University College, London , 3 October 1892)

Exponía una cantidad extraordinaria de conocimientos pésimamente asimilados.

The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself

I would rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar.

No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness.

When we consider a child's natural interest in things, we begin to realize the dangers of both reward and punishment. Rewards and punishment tend to pressure a child into interest. But true interest is the life force of the whole personality, and such interest is completely spontaneous.

Children do not need teaching as much as they need love and understanding.

En fait, la majorité de nos meilleurs étudiants, que ce soit à l'école ou à l'université, sombrent plus tard dans la médiocrité. Leur intérêt pour le succès est dû en grande partie à la pression familiale et non à l'intérêt réel qu'ils prennent au sujet. (p. 223)

a teacher should never touch symbols. If he is going to use psychology he should do so more in action than in words.

I am all for teachers who can make their subjects interesting, who can make them live.

Grammar used to make a good exercise . . . before the days of crosswords.

Spelling is local, or rather national.

the system goes on . . . separating the head from the heart.

He [Homer Lane] says much that the student in training college does not learn: the lesson that one must go deep, seek motives, approve, live with children without insisting on dignity or respect — which both generally imply fear.

Je crois que ma tâche première est d'approuver tout ce qu'un enfant désapprouve en lui-même - c'est-à-dire de briser la conscience qui lui est imposée par l'éducation et qui n'aboutit qu'à la haine de son moi. (p. 371)

If a parent is content with a child who has had his spirit completely broken by fear, then, for such a parent, punishment succeeds.

Summerhill children are allowed to go through their gangster period, and consequentially more furniture is destroyed.