Quotes About Education

History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.

Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.

Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. A true teacher pushes the students out of the nest to strengthen the wings.

One of the questions I hear most often regarding my plan to read the OED from cover to cover is "Why don't you just read it on the computer?" I usually respond as if the questions was "Why don't you just slump yourself on the couch and watch TV for the year?" which is not quite an appropriate reponse. It is not so much that I am anicomputer; I am resolutely and stubbornly pro-book.

Every mistake is a lesson

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.

None can teach admirably if not loving his task.

Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.

As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.

she talked until she was hoarse about the basic rights of every citizen: equal education, equal pay, equal representation, and equal participation. Everyone quoted her and lots of people hated her,

Other studies indicate that compared to Western parents, Chinese parents spend approximately ten times as long every day drilling academic activities with their children. By contrast, Western kids are more likely to participate in sports teams. This

What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it. To get good at anything you have to work, and

She's not a straight-A student, but she's also not stupid. She just thinks she is, which sucks in ways that make me want to do horrible, vile things to whoever made her feel that way.

Well, you know, I'm passionate about that. I just feel that we need to help children from the earliest time to realize that there are ways that they can express how they feel, ways that aren't hurtful.

know that when I was teaching, the families of immigrants were among my hardest working and often best behaved. I know that the respect I accorded them was returned to me tenfold.

He was pulling Bs in his classes, because that was what you got when you weren't really trying,

Cheever bit his lip. God, if nothing else, he was getting an education as to what made Mackey James Sanders such an undeniable force in the universe.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

You're a child, right? You have school? Is there anyway you could... reschedule school for another day?

I'm not an elitist. I just know how to read.