Quotes About Education

You may teach those who want to learn. However, you cannot teach those who intend to teach you.

Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone.

One who has merely heard of fire has ajnana, ignorance. One who has seen fire has jnana. But one who has actually built a fire and cooked on it has vijnana.

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.

We do not learn from experience … we learn from reflecting on experience." —John Dewey

The most effective and resilient organizations are those that have created cultures in which continuous learning is a foundational element of their mission and guiding principles.

On one level, it's easy to think that learning professionals are in the business of delivering learning content. But from a cognitive perspective, we're really in the business of helping learners build schemata that they can then use to perform their jobs.

It's just that I know the world is so wide and full of people and exciting things that I just go crazy every day stuck in these institutions. I mean if I don't get started soon, how will I get the chance to sharpen my wits? It takes lots of training. You have to start very young.

If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.

In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it.

clear thinking find that unless people have some emotional reason to learn something, they do not learn it very well or at all. This is why tests are given—to motivate learners to have that thrill of a good score or distress of a poor one, and we have found that

unless people have some emotional reason to learn something, they do not learn it very well or at all.

In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it." For some of us that curriculum is the equivalent of graduate study at Oxford!

Or as one friend of mine put it, 'In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it.

You can lead a boy to college but you can't make him think.

College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Grammar is the grave of letters.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Never get married in college it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.