Quotes About Education

The more you read, the better you get at it; the better you get at it, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it. And the more you read, the more you know; and the more you know, the smarter you grow.

The last thing you want first-graders thinking is that what they're reading in first grade is as good as books are going to get!

Instead of educating the I.Q., we need to educate the H.Q., the heart quotient, the matters of truth, love, justice, and compassion. There are two ways to do this. One is through the read life experiences and the other is through literature. Literature has the power to take us outside ourselves and returns to ourselves a changed self.

Background knowledge is one reason children who read the most bring the largest amount of information to the learning table and thus understand more of what the teacher or the textbook is teaching. 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.

So how do we educate the heart? There are really only two ways: life experience and stories about life experience, which is called literature. Great preachers and teachers—Aesop, Socrates, Confucius, Moses, and Jesus—have traditionally used stories to get their lesson plans across, educating both the mind and the heart.

The more you read, the better you get at it; the better you get at it, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

I feel really good in the teacher role.

I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.

Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest.

I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

It's what you learn after you know it all that's important.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.—George Bernard Shaw

Your role is not to make your child happy every moment of the day regardless of the personal cost, but to raise her to be a thoughtful, kind, productive citizen of the world. Some people would beg to differ, but it's not a choice to discipline or not. Your child needs discipline, just like she needs food and water.

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

I hate it when people imply that people only read because they have nothing better to do.

It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.

I'll take Heinlein over a headmistress any day.

We, and Plato, meant nothing but the best for them! And when I say the best I mean it literally; what we wanted for them was nothing but excellence, virtue, arete. They say you can't want that for somebody else, they have to want it for themselves. Well, perhaps they have a point. But Plato wrote that seeking to increase someone else's excellence is the best form of love.

This school is enough to make anyone a communist.

Robert Heinlein says in Have Spacesuit, Will Travel that the only things worth studying are history, languages, and science. Actually, he adds maths, but honestly they left out the mathematical part of my brain.

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. Libraries