Quotes About Education

The Moroccan education system is a crime against the educators .

Para cuidar y atender su educación —respondió el Conde Olar con voz reventante de orgullo, y una chispa de maligna socarronería—. Para adiestrarlo en el arte de la caza y de las armas». Era la primera vez que Sikrosio oía llamar a su padre arte a aquella suerte de desesperación colectiva que les obligaba a lanzarse unos sobre otros, espada en mano, en defensa de un palmo de tierra.

em pouco tempo poderemos ter o pesadelo de gerações que não conseguem entender a literatura atual porque não conhecem os clássicos que a procedem.

Ninguém deve ser forçado a ler nada. Ler é um direito de cada cidadão, não é um dever.

To some education is just a bore; to most education is food for the brain and enrichment for the present and future.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.

The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious

Gelehrte sind Menschen, die sich von normalen Sterblichen durch die anerworbene Fähigkeit unterscheiden, sich an weitschweifigen und komplizierten Irrtümern zu ergötzen.

Cercando di istruirlo, non farà altro che umiliarlo e affaticarlo. Non tenti d'illuminare la sua ignoranza, se non vuole che l'accusi d'insultare le sue convinzioni.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

While you can't hold on to everything forever, you're a fool if you sell back your college books at semester's end: have you learned nothing of this life?

Learning isn't a way of reaching one's potential but rather a way of developing it.

Even the most motivated and intelligent student will advance more quickly under the tutelage of someone who knows the best order in which to learn things, who understands and can demonstrate the proper way to perform various skills, who can provide useful feedback, and who can devise practice activities designed to overcome particular weaknesses.

Similarly—and more in line with the sorts of factors that may play a role in acquiring skills with practice—nine-month-old infants who paid more attention to a parent as that parent was reading a book and pointing to the pictures in the book grew up to have a much better vocabulary at five years of age than infants who paid less attention.

Today's education is entirely defective to the extent that, calling itself positivist, it begins with abusing the child's trust by presenting as true what is only either a temporary phenomenon or a hypothesis, when it's not a blatant untruth; and to the extent that it prevents children from forming in good time their own opinions by creasing into them certain habits that make their freedom of judgement an illusion

Los libros no valen más que en la medida en que nos enseñan a amar

Les vraies universités ne sont pas celles que nous avons construites. C'est facile à dire une fois qu'on le sait. Les vraies universités subvertissent, elles corrompent, ce sont des institutions dangereuses et, qui plus est, elles peuvent être très coûteuses. Et pourtant, il y a un danger - et un coût - bien plus grand à créer une société dans laquelle personne ne sait ce que signifie être réellement libre.