Quotes About Education

Smart people learn from their mistakes and wise people learn from somebody else's mistakes.

Life asks us to make measurable progress in reasonable time. That's why they make those fourth-grade chairs so small–so you won't fit in them at age 25.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune.

The book you don't read cant help.

The book you don't read won't help.

The child has the right to respect,' Ã¢â'¬Â he said. " Ã¢â'¬ËœThe child has the right to develop. The child has the right to be. The child has the right to grieve. The child has the right to learn. And the child has the right to make mistakes.' 

the desire and hunger for education is the key to real learning.

When we learn something, we can change our own life. When we teach something, we can change another's life—but when we teach people to teach, we can change the world.

Every dollar you spend on training saves you two dollars on advertising.

Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.

A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box, and the voting booth. And those decisions ultimately affect the entire nation...the literate and illiterate.

Children whose families take them to museums and zoos, who visit historic sites, who travel abroad, or who camp in remote areas accumulate huge chunks of background knowledge without even studying. For the impoverished child lacking the travel portfolio of affluence, the best way to accumulate background knowledge is by either reading or being read to.

What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn.

The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.

What happened to the classics?" you may ask. "Don't you believe in reading great literature to children?" Nothing happened to the classics-but something happened to children: their imaginations went to sleep in front of the television set twenty-five years ago. Reading a classic to a child whose imagination is in a state of retarded development will not foster a love of literature in that child.

The closest thing we have to a "crap detector" is a qualified librarian.

So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of sharing it with parents amounts to covering up a land mine on a busy street.

Children's books, even good picture books, are much richer than ordinary home or classroom conversation

Vocabulary and coherent sentences can't be downloaded onto paper unless they've first been uploaded to the head—by reading.

When someone becomes a teacher, she's like the matchmaker in Fiddler on the Roof. All year long she's trying to entice students to go out on dates with authors—that is, to pick up this book or that book and spend twenty minutes with the author, someone they've never met. The better she knows her students and authors or books, the more successful will be the "matchmaking." But the teacher (or librarian) who doesn't read much will fail for sure.

Allow children to choose the books they wish to read to themselves, even if they don't meet your high standards.

When the daily number of words for each group of children is projected across four years, the four-year-old child from the professional family will have heard 45 million words, the working-class child 26 million, and the welfare child only 13 million.

What we learn in childhood is carved in stone. What we learn as adults is carved in ice.