Quotes About Education

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

I actually went to NYU for six months, had some family issues that kind of set me back, and I couldn't afford to go anymore. That was the theme going on in my whole life, you know: money stopping me from whatever I wanted to do.

Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.

The MLK Shabbat Suppers focused on the theme of educational inequity, which Dr. King considered inextricably linked to the struggle for equality and justice.

When I finished my degree I became a physics and maths teacher. And worked in the international school in Brussels, because like many kids, after University I went home going 'ahhh I don't know what to do'. I happened to fall upon a job there because they were desperate for a physics teacher which is a common theme among many schools.

Fewer people than you might think seem to have truly enjoyed their formative education and, for those who did not, one theme in particular recurs: the breathtaking cruelty of children.

Know how to make a small fortune?" Sully asked Frank. "Take a large fortune and put it into educating a neurosurgeon who decides to quit and sell picnic supplies.

When it comes to problems at school,

I can talk to him about anything. We have the same kind of education and—" "What kind of education?" Clay asked. "We enjoy the arts. Music, literature, theater, art. My degree is in classical studies.

I think I might drum up the hardest end-of-term exams in the history of the world. I want to be remembered for something." "George, you'll be remembered. Who could forget you?" "Hopefully not you!" He kissed her forehead.

I missed a lot of life being the perfect student.

Sorry,' I apologized, realizing she was the sort of girl who got upset when someone used an unfamiliar word, rather than learning what it meant.

But no, I had a test in Calculus. I flunked the test, badly. It was as though my brain didn't want to solve for the rate of acceleration...

I'd never before walked out of a classroom with my mind racing because of what I'd learned, and I wanted to savor the feeling as long as possible. It was as though my brain was suddenly capable of considering the world with far more complexity , as though there was so much more to see and do and learn.

But then, I've always been terrible at math.

Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.

The fact is, all education is directed to some end, and if parents don't make conscious decisions on what that end is, they are simply abdicating their role in setting the direction" of their children's lives.

This kind of thing is why more and more Christian parents are concluding that they cannot afford to keep their children in public schools. Some tell themselves that their children need to remain there to be "salt and light" to the other kids. As popular culture continues its downward slide, however, this rationale begins to sound like a rationalization. It brings to mind a father who tosses his child into a whitewater river in the hopes that she'll save another drowning child.

Put another way, if you don't educate your children for metaphysical truth and moral virtue, mainstream culture will do it for you. Absent shared commitment to these spiritual and moral verities, it is hard to see how we renew our families, our communities, and our country with an ethic of duty, self-restraint, stewardship, and putting the needs of people, not the state or corporations, first.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to remain a child forever," said Cicero.

Si queremos sobrevivir, tenemos que regresar a las raíces de nuestra fe, tanto en pensamiento como en obra. Vamos a tener que educar nuestro corazón en hábitos ya olvidados en la Iglesia de Occidente. Vamos a tener que cambiar nuestras vidas y nuestra perspectiva de forma radical. En definitiva, vamos a tener que ser Iglesia, sin concesiones, cueste lo que cueste.

La constitución americana, un texto profundamente lockiano, privatiza la religión al separarla del Estado. Todo alumno de una escuela estadounidense aprende a considerar esto como una bendición, y puede que lo sea, pero tal segregación de lo secular y lo sagrado ha repercutido profundamente en la consciencia religiosa del pueblo americano.