Quotes About Education

She hadn't been taught to have prejudices, so she didn't.

He didn't want his children to be angry and black, but black and well prepared.

Es que el otro día leí en El Tiempo que los colombianos no tenemos educación política. Por eso a mí me gusta sacar el tema de vez en cuando, a ver qué aprendo. —Pues no sé, el problema es que yo también soy colombiano.

for. We have feminist centers and feminist programs because we do not have feminist universities: that

I have noticed that teachers get exciting confused with boring a lot.

I didn`t say it didn`t feel good... They never tell you this part in sex ed, how to talk about what you did and why you did it and what you thought about it, before, during, and after.

Impressive vocabulary, Korbyn said. I feel as though I should take notes. I think she's making them up, Liyana said. Half of them are not anatomically possible.

School was my solace, and studying let me escape, allowing me to live a thousand vicarious lives.

Earlier in the summer, I'd found the syllabi to a couple of the courses I was taking at Defriese in the fall, and I'd hunted down a few of the texts at the U bookstore, figuring it couldn't hurt to acquaint myself with the material.

Children brought up in the company of adults learn better than most the power of solitude.

I hate to be a nag, but you have got to read. Like most authors, I run creative writing workshops from time to time, and speak, when invited to writers' circles and at summer schools, and I'm continually amazed at the number of would-be writers who scarcely read. For ideas to germinate and proliferate there has to be fertile ground to sow them in, and for the ground to be fertile it must be mulched with observation, imagination, and other writing.

If I should have a daughter… I'm gonna paint the solar system on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say 'oh I know that like the back of my hand.

Little intimidates a man more than a learned woman.

Nory was preparing to take a Big Test. The Big Test, for the second time. The first time had been a disaster. Nory was in fifth grade.

As a teacher, I pride myself on education, but I quickly realized you can't motivate people who are unwilling to do what it takes to succeed. They need to want it for themselves more than you want it for them.

I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates.

So I say to you read! Read! Something will stick in the mind, be diligent and good will come of it.

I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates. The more knowledge, the better seems like the a solid rule of thumb, even though I have watched enough science fiction films to accept that humanity's unchecked pursuit of learning will end with robots taking over the world.

What's a ree-tard?" I asked Bernadette when I to back upstairs. "In music it's pronounced rih-tard, short for the Italian ritardando, which means slowing down," she said. 'What does it mean when it's pronounced ree-tard and somebody says it about you in English?" I asked. "It usually means the person saying it is a dimwit." (27-28)

As long as I could keep improving my mind, I figured, I was doing okay.

Ravelstein mentioned that Keynes had married a Russian ballerina. He also explained to me that Uranus had fathered Aphrodite but that she had had no mother. She was conceived by the sea foam. He would say such things not because he thought I was ignorant of them but because he judged that I needed at a given moment to have my thoughts directed toward them.

No school without spectacular eccentrics and crazy hearts is worth attending.

it greatly bothered him that I had such a flunky job, washing cages and sweeping up dogs' hair; and also that I was no longer a college man but trying to keep up on Helmholtz who was a dead number to him; in other words, that I should be of the unformed darkened-out mass. It was often that way with me, that people would feel the world owed me distinctness.

The people who come to evening classes are only ostensibly after culture. Their great need, their hunger, is for good sense, clarity, truth – even an atom of it. People are dying – it is no metaphor – for lack of something real to carry home when day is done.