Quotes About Education

Can you not distinguish truth from fiction? Or were you never taught the difference?

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

One key to student success: Learning requires effort and study.

Because teachers' work consists of affecting their students, they are dependent on their students both for the actual success of their work and evidence of that success

We want to help students maximize their strengths so they can hold jobs, pay taxes, and be happy. Watching students mature along that path is one of the great rewards of the profession.

Through the years, I have seen the records of many challenging students who tested at low levels because they were suffering from the emotional overload of their lives. It is common to see false scores at the lower end. A student cannot accidentally stumble up into the "advanced" level of an assessment, but many suffering students tumble down into the lowest percentages.

Students have the right to know our goals—all of them. Challenging students, who have experienced adults as unpredictably dangerous creatures roaming their landscapes, have earned the right to be suspicious of us. If these students are to try again, we have to be transparent in our efforts.

Be available to cover for a teacher who is de-escalating a challenging student. It is symbolically very meaningful when an administrator offers to cover a class, for even three minutes, so that the teacher can complete a complex interaction with a challenging student. Designate other faculty that can also be tapped when the need arises.

What I offer in this book are stories of hanging in, the practice-based evidence from working with our most challenging students,

The rich world dominates the training of Ph.D. economists, and the students of rich-world Ph.D. programs dominate the international institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, which have the lead in advising poor countries on how to break out of poverty.

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

The biggest reason people don't succeed is because they don't expose themselves to existing information." - Jim Rohn, America's business philosopher

every Toyota team member goes through a basic set of development steps at each stage of her development, following the process of basic learning by copying exactly (shu), mastering the basics so that they become second nature (ha), and becoming so masterful at the basics that she can go beyond these and improvise (ri).

Vaccines save lives fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.

Business school students seem to be particularly narcissistic, an important fact because many leaders in both the for-profit and the nonprofit world come from business school backgrounds, particularly in the more recent past.

most workplace learning goes on unbudgeted, unplanned, and uncaptured by the organization…. Up to 70 percent of workplace learning is informal.

statistically insignificant relationship between student evaluations and learning

the more objectively learning is measured, the less likely it is to be related to the evaluations.

Another review also concluded that "teacher ratings and learning are not closely related

empirical research conducted over decades suggests that student evaluations are more than unhelpful;

change the behaviors of presenters in ways that make learning and personal growth less likely.

So one of the first things I did when I became a minister was to establish a national oil company and a petroleum university.

Foster wanted his students to fit into and excel in the mainstream—not to vindicate themselves to disapproving whites, but to claim a birthright.

A person who says "every person has a right to a decent education" may not actually mean "people should be robbed to support bad schools" or "all children should be forced into a prison-like building for 12 years.