Quotes About Education

In the end I signed up for a different Spanish film seminar, taught in Spanish, by an adjunct instructor. The adjunct instructor also said stupid things, but they were in Spanish, so you learned more.

When I got back to school in the fall, I changed my major from linguistics and didn't take any more classes in the philosophy or psychology of language. They had let me down. I hadn't learned what I wanted to about how language worked. I hadn't learned anything at all.

I couldn't help thinking it was wasteful for people with such good logic skills to spend so many years and so much energy learning to reconcile an old book with the way things were now. Couldn't a person just write a new book?

I went from class to class, read hundreds, thousands of pages of the distilled ideas of the great thinkers of human history, and nothing happened. In high school I had been full of opinions, but high school had been like prison, with constant opposition and obstacles. Once the obstacles were gone, meaning seemed to vanish, too.

That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears.

The computer on the desk of the student in school knows no history. It is not like a book, worn at the edges by human hands. No little child has written a note in it, long ago. It will not be passed down to the children of the children who use it. Its "meaning" is that there is no enduring meaning.

An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.

Chinese were not simply great craftsmen and ingenious designers, they were also a deeply moral people. Ethics was their true strength, and theirs was an ethics that crucially eschewed metaphysical or theological speculation and adhered to education and conversation.

America has an internal enemy more deadly than any terrorist -- it's called ignorance.

There is no royal road to learning no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

Leemos porque, aunque leer no sea indispensable para vivir, la vida es más agradable, más clara, más rica para aquellos que leen que para aquellos que no lo hacen. En un sentido más simple todavía: vivir es más fácil para aquellos que saben leer, no solamente las noticias, las instrucciones de uso, las ordenanzas, los periódicos y las papeletas de voto, sino también los textos literarios.

There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

If…if I had his education, Kantaylis thought, surprised at the sudden intensity of the desire. If I could I'd study this business, read up on it, read all there is to be read about it.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you dont have a passport.

It is not sufficient to tell native kids to be proud of who they are if we do not also at the same time tell them who they are. The struggle in connecting young people to their traditions is compounded by a school system that consistently provides opportunities to learn about others but very few for native kids to learn about themselves. We have a lot of work to do.

An education is a powerful lever that improves—but doesn't guarantee—the chances that someone can overcome adversity and make it in spite of the barriers. The myth of the American dream really is a myth.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

Taking our knowledge to heart and really living it, however, can be difficult, as Seneca illustrated with a literally colourful analogy: 'Just as some dyes are readily absorbed by the wool, others only after repeated soaking and simmering, so there are some studies that show up well in our minds as soon as we have learned them; this one, though, must permeate us thoroughly. It must soak in, giving not just a tinge of color but a real deep dye, or it cannot deliver on any of its promises.

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.