Quotes About Education

Some 57 percent of Americans now do not read a single book in a typical year.

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When they got the results, they were clear. The more novels you read, the better you were at reading other people's emotions. It was a huge effect. This wasn't just a sign that you were better educated—because reading nonfiction books, by contrast, had no effect on your empathy.

Some 57 percent of Americans now do not read a single book in a typical year. This has escalated to the point that by 2017, the average American spent seventeen minutes a day reading books and 5.4 hours on their phone.

Choosing to put a chemical into your body should not be a crime, and being addicted should not be a crime. Instead, all the money spent on arresting, trying, and punishing addicts should be transferred to educating kids and helping addicts to recover.

This gap in understanding between books and screens is big enough that in elementary-school children, it's the equivalent of two-thirds of a year's growth in reading comprehension.

Now that they are effectively under house arrest, what are kids doing with the time they used to spend playing? One study of this found that this time is now overwhelmingly spent on homework (which exploded by 145 percent between 1981 and 1997), screens, and shopping with their parents. A 2004 study found that U.S. kids spent 7.5 hours more each week on academics than they had twenty years before.

Standardized schooling too often drains learning of meaning, while progressive schooling tries to infuse it into everything. This is why the best research on this question shows that kids at more progressive schools are more likely to retain what they've learned in the long run, more likely to want to carry on learning, and more likely to be able to apply what they've learned to new problems. These, it seems to me, are among the most precious forms of attention.

More speed means less comprehension.

one professor told me that he struggled to get his students there to read even quite short books, and he increasingly offered them podcasts and YouTube clips they could watch instead. And that's Harvard.

the more a child is read storybooks—something the parents, more than the kid, choose—the better they are at reading other people's emotions.

The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.

In its purity this life [in the home circle] is the highest, the most exalted that can be thought or dreamed of for the education of our race. It is unconditionally true: where love and the ability to love are found in the home circle there one can confidently predict that the education it affords almost never fails.

Learning by head, hand and heart

I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks it's what children bring into school with them.

A man who does not know a foreign language is ignorant of his own.

Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages,knows nothing of their own.

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

We really only learn from books we cannot judge. The author of a book we could really judge ought surely to be learning from us.

You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.