Quotes About Education

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 hopes that she'll save another drowning child.

Depictions of communism on campus paint the ideology as revolutionary or idealistic, overlooking its authoritarian violence," she writes. "Instead of deepening our understanding of the world, the college experience teaches us to reduce one of the most destructive ideologies in human history to a one-dimensional, sanitized narrative."2

Whisperer' and a bestselling author of climate change and overpopulation books. Combining his curriculum vitae with the amazing dumbing down of the humanities department in recent years, he was in high demand. The campus was full of attractive women with limited, or even non-existent, critical thinking skills who didn't know very much but were passionate about their beliefs.

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.

Eratosthenes of Cyrene, a polymath and one of the first directors of the library

Among the last words that Isocrates ever wrote, before his death at the age of ninety-eight

Matter of fact, I watch tons of tube, but I also read tons of books so I can figure out what's true and what's fake, which isn't always easy. Books are like truth serum--if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

A recent study of three thousand New England high-school kids shows that students with B averages or better enjoyed seventeen to thirty-three minutes more sleep and went to bed ten to fifty minutes earlier than students with C averages.

But all knowledge is conveyed to us by the senses: they are our masters:

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men's works, for his own memory sake, into short room.

The safety of our sons and daughters as they go out on the streets this very night is due to the influence of the preachers rather than to the police men and lawmakers. The safety of our nation, including all groups, depends on Christian education.

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.

Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world. And what is worst, those who are thus ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance, and so do not seek a remedy.

Wissenschaft ist Macht.

I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

En su lugar colocó a Delfina Gómez, una maestra de primaria y activista de la tribu del senador Higinio Martínez, un cacique de Texcoco aliado de Ricardo Monreal y Marcelo Ebrard. Con ella se consolida la contrarreforma educativa.

En el mundo globalizado en el que vivimos, la peor dependencia no es la que se basa en la compra de bienes extranjeros, sino la pobreza aunada a la falta de educación de gran parte de la población y la precariedad de las empresas nacionales.