Quotes About Education

Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.

My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

If I weren't out here every day battling the white man, I could spend the rest of my life reading.

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity -- because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about.

You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.

We do ability grouping early on in childhood...if we look at young kids, in kindergarten and first grade, the teachers are confusing maturity with ability.

Kitaps?z bir ev üzücü olmal?. Daha üzücüsü ise; okuyan? olmayan kitaplarla dolu bir evdir.

Marc Aronson

Über Bertolt Brecht) aber letztlich war er doch kein Lehrer und kein Volkserzieher. Er war ein leidenschaftlicher Verführer. Möglichst alle wollte er verführen: Frauen und Männer, Junge und Alte, Künstler und Politiker. Und nirgends schienen ihm die Menschen so verführbar wie im Zuschauerraum des Theaters.

Si quieres aprender, enseña.

La cultura no garantiza el buen juicio, el escepticismo ni la sabiduría.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

From my great-grandfather: not to have attended schools for the public; to have had good teachers at home, and to realize that this is the sort of thing on which one should spend lavishly.

From my Great-grandfather, not to have frequented public schools, and to have had good teachers at home, and to know that on such things a man should spend liberally.

As for thy thirst after books, away with it with all speed.

4. MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER To avoid the public schools, to hire good private teachers, and to accept the resulting costs as money well-spent.

Aprendí de Alejandro el gramático el no censurar; no zaherir a quienes se les fue un barbarismo, un solecismo o cualquier viciosa pronunciación; sino anunciar con maña aquella única palabra que convenía proferir, bajo la forma de una respuesta, de una confirmación o de una deliberación sobre el fondo mismo, no sobre la forma, o por otro medio apropiado de hábil sugerencia.

it is important that children not be taught in such a way that they will later need to unlearn many things. We

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

It is strong proof of men knowing things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.