Quotes About Education

And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

Anak-anak di Nusantara, sejauh yang saya amati dan pahami, sering diajarkan bahasa secara tak konsisten. Di rumah maupun di sekolah, bahasa yang digunakan kerap tidak hanya satu. Keadaan ini sendiri sebetulnya tidak apa-apa; sebaliknya sangat bermanfaat bagi anak-anak jika mereka mendengar lebih dari satu bahasa sejak kecil. Hanya saja, penggunaannya harus konsisten.

To learn you must first fail

I've got no education.

Montessori went straight to my heart, because it's all about encountering the world through the senses. That's how kids learn best. The hands are the instrument of the mind—that was how Maria Montessori put it.

In moments of crisis, all you gotta do is review your multiplication tables, and it'll all blow over!

In grammar school he'd had an old priest as his religion teacher. "Truth is light," the priest had said one day. Montalbano, never very studious, had been a mischievous pupil, always sitting in the last row. "So that must mean that if everyone in the family tells the truth, they save on the electric bill.

When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.

I mean, if there was any justice in the world you wouldn't even have to go to school during your period.

The school is built on top of a small rise,

If you're poor it will be almost impossible to get a higher education that will allow you to get out of the lowest category. If, on the other hand, you have a fortune it will be far easier to do trade or to start a company than it would if you have to depend on borrowed money. The more money you have the easier it is to make more.

SCIENTIA POTENTIA EST Ã¢â'¬â€œ Wissen ist Macht

Your problem, Nagrant,' he declared, 'is that your education was unconnected with the practical reality of life. You grew up believing that rules are more important than all the facts you could ever uncover, and that the slightest disobedience is deadly.

We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.

The jigsaw puzzle of life is made easier through Financial Literacy.

True faith and good education distinguish Germans from white Americans, who come across in May's novels as blasphemous and utterly uneducated. Indeed, it is Old Shatterhand's "Europeanness"—meaning his Germanness in a cultural sense, and not his whiteness in any kind of purely racial category—that constitutes his intellectual and spiritual-religious superiority, distinguishing him not only from the Indians, but also Anglo-Americans:

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. —From "On Listening to Lectures" by Plutarch

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

FIFTH GRADE WAS different. That was the year to get ready for middle school. Fifth grade meant passing classes. It meant no morning recess. It meant real letter grades on your report cards. But most of all, it meant Mrs. Granger.

And that's Jake Drake, Know-It-All.

be nicer to you than she is to some other kid, then that's not your fault. That's the teacher's fault. Because a teacher's not supposed to be nicer to one kid than she is to another, right?

Because books do that—they make us lose some ignorance, and lose some fear. And losing fear might mean losing some anger, too.