Quotes About Education

Erst wenn man einen Abschluss in Philosophie, einen in Soziologie und einen in Wirtschaft hat, merkt man, dass man eigentlich nur was von Elektrizität und vom Klempnern verstehen muss, um in der Welt rumzukommen.

Tú lee todo lo que puedas. Reúne cultura. Cuanta más, mejor. Para que no caigas al agujero en el que están cayendo muchos en este país.

Aprende mucho en el colegio, Txiki. Tú aprende y aprende. No pares. Si no aprendes estás perdido, hazme caso.

Una frase de C.S. Lewis en el Moleskine: «La tarea del educador moderno no es cortar selvas, sino regar desiertos».

I try to shed what I've learned, I try to forget the way I was taught to remember

Teach nothing, for you still have everything to learn.

O que é certo é que entre um homem vulgar e um macaco há menos diferença que entre um homem vulgar e um homem realmente culto.

Singurul avantaj când studiezi e s? te bucuri de ceea ce alÈ›ii nu au spus.

Today, the entire country is an immense University.

We have the lowest student-teacher ratio and spend five times as much on schools than war - the opposite of what the United States does. [explaining why Cuba has the highest literacy in the world]

She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.

The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.

Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.

I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.

The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery.

I don't believe in classes where students criticize each other's manuscripts. Such criticism is generally composed in equal parts of ignorance, flattery, and spite. It's the blind leading the blind, and it can be dangerous. A teacher who tries to impose a way of writing on you can be dangerous, too.

The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election.

What is needed is the vision to go with it, and you do not get this from a writing class.

She had managed after he died to get the two of them through college and beyond; but she had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.

In the last twenty years the colleges have been emphasizing creative writing to such an extent that you almost feel that any idiot with a nickel's worth of talent can emerge from a writing class able to write a competent story. In fact, so many people can now write competent stories that the short story as a medium is in danger of dying of competence. We want competence, but competence by itself is deadly. What is needed is the vision to go with it, and you do not get this from a writing class.

There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

I don't recall that when I was in high school or college, any novel was ever presented to me to study as a novel. In fact, I was well on the way to getting a Master's degree in English before I really knew what fiction was, and I doubt if I would ever have learned then, had I not been trying to write it. I believe that it's perfectly possible to run a course of academic degrees in English and to emerge a seemingly respectable Ph.D. and still not know how to read fiction.

I am going to be the World Authority on Peafowl, and I hope to be offered a chair some day at the Chicken College.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. The Nature and Aim of Fiction