Quotes About Education

It's too pragmatic for me," Valenti said. "The know-how is good enough for technology, not for science.

They had spent a few years in Paris, but they had still to undergo a real education — one which no school, lycee or university could supply: they had still to undergo their education in suffering. Then they'd be ready to understand what this was all about.

What'll be needed," Chavez said, "is an educational campaign. We must help people to adjust to the new age and convince them there is no harmful effect or any kind of damage to themselves . . ." "Yeah," Mathieu muttered. "Promotion.. It's called promotion in the West, indoctrination in the East.

If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.

We used to be referred to as bakers and then we became known as cake decorators and now we are known as cake designers. I teach at the French Culinary Institute in New York and cake design is a legitimate profession.

I want the kids to enjoy reading not only today but for the rest of their lives.

I want the kids to enjoy reading not only today but for the rest of their lives. I try to do all I can to show them the power of their imaginzations and to teach them that images on a movie screen pale by comparison with the pictures we can paint with our minds.

If kids grow kale, kids eat kale. If they grow tomatoes, they eat tomatoes. But when none of this is presented to them, if they're not shown how food affects the mind and the body, they blindly eat whatever you put in front of them.

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.

Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.

Education isn't about teaching people what to think, which is how we have spent a lot of church time, but to help them learn how to think and respond appropriately in real time in continuity with the script-ure.

Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

Speak up, speak often and don't worry about those that at this point cannot understand as they can never un-hear what we tell them.

A free society acknowledges that authority over education begins with the family. I am not saying that a free society grants that authority. I do not believe that such authority is delegated by society.

Even today, authors who claim correctly, as Patrick Buchanan does in his book Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War, that both World War I and World War II were "unnecessary wars" are shunned and ridiculed. Such a suggestion is so at odds with how history is taught in most US schools that many people are unwilling to even consider arguments backing Buchanan's conclusion.

When we recognize that true understanding of a discipline involves learning its processes and ways of thinking as well as its content knowledge, then we naturally create opportunities for developing those abilities.

In the United States, a consistent finding from the National Assessment of Educational Progress is that students at all levels of testing (ages nine, thirteen, and seventeen) are generally able to show mastery of the procedures taught, but struggle to apply their knowledge to problem-solving situations that are not clear-cut matters of applying a rule (Carpenter, Corbitt, Kepner, Lindquist, & Reys, 1980).

What if we sought to develop a culture of thinking in our schools, classrooms, museums, meetings, and organizations?

Collectively we read Andrea Elliott's story, "The Journey to a Culture of Thinking.

Nonetheless, such environments aren't the norm for many students.

Not our expectations of students, but our expectations for students.

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.