Quotes About Education

Most Amerikans do not read books--they prefer television. Academics lock books in a tangled web of mindfuck and abstraction. The notion is that there are ideas, then art, then somewhere else, unrelated, life.

Es ist wie eine mathematische Gleichung, aber niemand lernt sie in der Schule auswendig; sie wird nicht deutlich auf die Tafel geschrieben. Es ist Algebra für Mädchen, aber niemand bringt sie dir bei. Du wirst zu Fall gebracht oder niedergeworfen, und du lernst selber. Keine Mutter der Welt kann es ertragen, es dir zu erklären.

Only theory can turn a heap of facts into a tower of knowledge

A child doesn't have to be a prodigy. The only thing that matters is that he should't become 'stuck' in childishness

Today is my second-last lecture of the course. I don't think much of these students, I must say. They're a dim lot.

This is where the children of honest poverty have the most precious of all advantages over those of wealth. The mother, nurse, cook, governess, teacher, saint, all in one; the father, exemplar, guide, counselor, and friend! Thus were my brother and I brought up. What has the child of millionaire or nobleman that counts compared to such a heritage?

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. Is is a never failing spring in the desert

Robert said, This is great, huh? Sorry to butt in and everything, but I really need the extra points. For my grade. Ben nodded and tried to smile. Right, for his grade. He probably wanted to get an A++ in social studies instead of just an A+

That was the second thing—understanding what Mrs. Granger had said.

Laketon Elementary School was in the middle of a medium-size town in the middle of New Jersey. There was a reason Dave was in the middle of his fourth hour of not talking, but this isn't the time to tell about that. This is the time to tell what he figured out in the middle of his social studies class.

Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life.

Reading is a practice; good reading is a highly sophisticated practice. The practice has to be learnt.

He developed a particularly annoying way of ignoring the teaching during the term and then coming top in the examination.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. • Benjamin Franklin

Learning is a continuous and ongoing process.

In 1897, Indiana State Legislature House Bill No. 246 attempted to decree that henceforth ? should have the value of 3. The Bill was tabled indefinitely at its second reading when a mathematics professor pointed out that their powers did not quite extend to passing laws of nature.

Since the knowledge is available, why try to struggle along without it? The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.

I've got a lot to learn. I've got 101 books sitting by my bedside - piles of books - absolutely gripped.

reach, that these meditations are now published. It is only by frequent repetition that a child learns its lessons.

Do they learn anything about literature? Doubtful. But they learn to love language again, something that has faded like sex in a long marriage. Because of this, they learn to love their teacher.

have taught a high school English class for the best part of a decade, and graded homework every night, and woken up early in the morning to plan my lessons, and read and reread Shakespeare, and sat through enough conferences and meetings for even those in Purgatory to envy me.

I have never ridden a camel. I have taught a high school English class for the best part of a decade, and graded homework every night, and woken up early in the morning to plan my lessons, and read and reread Shakespeare, and sat through enough conferences and meetings for even those in Purgatory to envy me.

Mental illness is real illness

Books are not luxuries. They are the meat and drink for the mind.