Quotes About Education

I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.

best" means learning, not selling.

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.

Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.

The vision of the ideal life that we've been taught in the West, which is gaining ever more purchase in China and India and elsewhere, feeds the system we need to undo. Go to school in order to get a degree in order to get a job in order to earn money so you can try to buy happiness because your life sucks, then retire and die: this is not meaningful living.

Robin had presented him with a fake degree from a university in Athens where the puck had an old acquaintance who still got a kick out of teaching, despite hemlock rumors to the contrary.

His early education was haphazard. In 1847 Will's father hired Miss Helen Goodridge to

In 1986, under the sponsorship of the U.S. Information Agency, he conducted seminars for Chinese educators in Beijing, China, in the teaching of American English. He was a key speaker at the first Face-to-Face International Publishing Conference in The Hague, Netherlands, and was a principal speaker at the annual meeting of the Periodical Publishers

The development of skills is the meat of learning. The imparting of skills is the meat of teaching,

he also recruited another of Emerson's intimates, Margaret Fuller (no relation to the headmaster), to the teaching staff. It

Under President Josiah Quincy, Harvard turned its back on the citizenry as a whole to focus on the sons of the Hub's wealthy merchants and financiers.

Emerson put the development of the individual, rather than service to society, at the heart of his educational vision.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Teachers must, I discovered, have a gift to teach and the compulsion to use it. And faith. Anything less won't carry you through.

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are supreme.

We all see only that which we are trained to see.

Learning, like oxygen, is something imbibed from the atmosphere about one.

Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.

I did on one or two occasions tell my students they were living in a society that valued people of their age, region, and class primarily as cannon fodder, cheap labor, and gullible consumers, and that education could give them some of the weapons necessary to fight back.

Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play—work you do so easily that it restores you as you go.

Are students so intimidated by expertise that they've lost confidence in their own powers of observation?