Quotes About Education

Roy Peter Clark

Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.

A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.

I once learned that only three behaviors set literate people apart. The first two are obvious: reading and writing; but the third surprised me: talking about how reading and writing work.

parts of speech.

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.

Nossas inteligências estão cada vez mais ligadas aos vídeos e computadores e cada vez mais distantes da natureza. Há crianças que nunca viram uma galinha de verdade, nunca sentiram o cheiro de um pinheiro, nunca ouviram o canto do pintassilgo e não têm prazer em brincar com terra. Pensam que terra é sujeira. Não sabem que terra é vida.

Escola é máquina de destruir crianças. Nas escolas as crianças são transformadas em adultos. É isto que todos os pais querem: que seus filhos sejam adultos produtivos. Como ficam felizes quando eles passam no vestibular!

No fundo, o mal todo está nessa mania de ler, estudar, escrever; esse negócio de intelectual é sempre maroto. Por que não promover uma grande campanha nacional de analfabetização?

The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.

If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

memorizing history in school, you should picture yourself in the Battle of Hastings and pretend to lose your legs. You won't forget it then. Parietal

Learning to read faces should be compulsory in schools so you can decipher what people are really thinking.

A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.

The mere exposure to masterworks does not suffice. Too many persons visit museums and collect picture books without ever gaining access to art. The inborn capacity to understand through the eyes has been put to sleep and must be reawakened. This is best accomplished by handling pencils, brushes, chisels and perhaps cameras.

Johnny couldn't read ... for the simple reason that nobody ever showed him how.

Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.

You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.

Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.

for even the wisest can learn incalculably much from children.