Quotes About Education

How the problem is affecting the kid (health, safety, learning) How the problem is affecting others (health, safety, learning)

In schools, as in homes, there's a tendency to work on the hot-button problem that precipitated a challenging episode on a particular day. But because unsolved problems wax and wane, the hot-button unsolved problem that was the focal point on one day is often replaced by a different hot-button unsolved problem the next.

There are a lot of different people to get on the same page. And there's a big dinosaur in the building: the existing school discipline program.

Your child is lacking skills, not motivation.

There's an excellent video of full-class Plan B on the Lives in the Balance website.

kids do well if they can.

A professor, who had left teaching soon after World War II, lectured to a group of students at a major Western university a few years ago on the decline of liberty. To his shock, one of the first questions asked by a student was simply this: "What's so wonderful about liberty? What makes you think it is necessary for man?" For the students, security was a necessary social objective; liberty was not.

But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.

Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems.

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.

There is a difference between knowledge and wisdom: knowledge is information; wisdom is knowing how to use it.

Write or nothing. It's the same principle as keeping order in a school. If you make the pupils behave, they will learn something just to keep from being bored. I find it works. Two very simple rules, a. you don't have to write. b. you can't do anything else. The rest comes of itself.

Girls' superior self-control is probably one reason they get better grades in school than boys do.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

De lo que no ocurre, no se aprende nada.

We teach what we need to learn.

Iranian high school students learned how to draw microscopes and how to write letter-perfect descriptions of the way in which microscopes worked, but the microscopes in Iranian schools usually remained locked up as property too valuable to be put in students' hands. The

Ali, who had seen scores of his students go out to become mullahs of neighborhoods and villages, now thanked God he had the talent to remain in a life of learning, since he clearly lacked the courage - he was tempted to say the audacity - to tell other people how to live their lives.

Please excuse this slow-witted talabeh, who will have to read the text and the margins several times to make sure he gets today's lesson right.

Roy Peter Clark

The ability to read, society tells us, contributes to success in education, employment, and citizenship. Reading is a democratic craft. Writing, in contrast, is considered a fine art.

the act of writing will make you a better student, a better worker, a better friend, a better citizen, a better parent, a better teacher, a better person. I

Roy Peter Clark

Roy Peter Clark