Quotes About Education

Success is a poor teacher

Orthodox Judaism does not place undue emphasis on hellfire and damnation, nor are children specially pressured to search their souls for sin. But the priorities of a cheder education were anything but material. Read, read, read. Study, study, study. These were the objectives of school — and of life itself.

Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn't have to work too hard to get it.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

When I crouch to my television set,the drained faces of Negro school-children rise like balloons.

How influential was Paul Sachs? Because he was short, about five foot two, he hung paintings low on the wall. When American museums rose to prominence after the war, many of the directors hung their paintings lower than their counterparts in Europe. Sachs's students had simply accepted it as the norm, and the other museums followed their lead.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

To put an end to the spirit of inquiry that has characterized the West it is not necessary to burn the books. All we have to do is to leave them unread for a few generations.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

If you love the language, the greatest thing you can do to ensure its survival is not to complain about bad usage but to pass your enthusiasm to a child. Find a child and read to it often the things you admire, not being afraid to read the classics.

Vague statements are interchangeable.

We've created a safe, nonjudgemental environment that will leave your child ill-prepared for real-life.

It just shows you that if you take a plain, ordinary, moronic intern and make him do the same things over and over again until he loses is mind, you can teach him to do almost anything. I think now that I've mastered IVs, I might take up neurosurgery in my spare time.

Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.

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What do you teach?" "Art history." From Taylor's expression, this made little sense.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

The art of teaching consists in large part of interesting people in things that ought to interest them, but do not

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.