Quotes About Education

Teachers are the single most important determinant of a student's schooling experience and academic outcomes. Social science studies have demonstrated not only that highly effective teachers are capable of producing nearly three times the student achievement gains of low-performing teachers, but also that a series of five above-average teachers can overcome the deficit typically reported between economically disadvantaged and higher income students. (p. 3)

a little knowledge would unlock the gates to vast and unsuspected gates of ignorance.

Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.

The world is always the same. Always beautiful: why should we let our delight in it die? The answer to this problem lies in education. If we teach our children to love everything about them - the sky, the air, water, flowers, animals - then they will keep their youthful spirit forever, whatever may happen to them in the trivial world of affairs.

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself indeed, it seems to execute itself.

I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

You only stop learning when you quit.

Parents, teachers, government - they all teach you how to live the dreary, deadening life of a slave, but nobody teaches you how to live normally.

This was a factory, a sorting house. We were no different from dogs and pigs and cows: all of us were allowed to play when we were small, but then, just before reaching maturity, we were sorted and classified. Being a high school student was the first step toward becoming a domestic animal.

With the evolution of technology, kids really need to be computer-savvy.

Science teachers give their students the keys to unlocking the secrets of the world around them.

We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.

Travel is educational it teaches you how to get rid of money in a hurry.

Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

The chalk marks are transient, the formulas eternal.

Take away the paradox from a thinker and you have a professor.

Though you may yourself abound in treasure, teach your son some handicraft; for a heavy purse of gold and silver may run to waste, but the purse of the artisan?s industry can never get empty.

Hiçbiri insan? insan yapan ?eyin ?ahsiyet oldu?unu, bütün ilimlerin, bütün tecrübelerin yaln?z bunu temine yarad???n? anlamam??t?r.

Ro?ak Michael bio je prvi pokrovitelj škole, povu?eni ?ovjek koji je pisao gospo?i Harris o svemu što bi prema njegovu mišljenju moglo pomo?i bogatim nasljednicama koje poha?aju njenu školu. Madeline je osobito sumnjala da je ro?ak Michael vodio tako povu?en život kao što je tvrdio. No to vjerojatno nikada ne?e otkriti jer nitko nije znao njegov pravi identitet, pa ?ak ni gospo?a Harris.