Quotes About Education

recently returned from Boston, where she was staying with her Aunt, to broaden her education. She has turned out a charming young woman, everything one might wish for, and displayed a courtesy and gentle kindness many would admire, and which is worth so much

I could spell it, I say. Write it down. He hesitates at this novel idea. Possibly he doesn't remember I can. I've never held a pen or a pencil, in this room, not even to add up the scores. Women can't add, he once said, jokingly. When I asked him what he meant, he said, For them, one and one and one and one don't make four. What

She's certainly old enough," said Aunt Vidala. "We have taught her all we can. If they stay in school too long, they become disruptive.

Let's pretend this, let's pretend that. They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

You don't teach boys to be charming. It makes people think they are devious.

The books I was given to learn from were about a boy and a girl called Dick and Jane. The books were very old, and the pictures had been altered at Ardua Hall. Jane wore long skirts and sleeves, but you could tell from the places where the paint had been applied that her skirt had once been above her knees and her sleeves had ended above her elbows. Her hair had once been uncovered.

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't do that again.

Being able to read and write did not provide the answers to all questions. It led to other questions, and then to others.

Florida's not the hick town you keep saying it is," says Reynolds. "Times have changed; they've got good universities now and a great book festival! Thousands of people come to it!

My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.

A child's questions ought always to be answered honestly and sincerely or else it gets a compress.' 'Complex. I am answering you honestly.' 'Am I a bastard?' Sir Henry was startled, but after a moment's thought said, 'Yes. But that's not a word you should use. Where did you learn it?' 'Shakespeare.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Georgia, a lack of the niceties of classical education carried no shame, provided a man was smart in the things that mattered. And raising good cotton, riding well, shooting straight, dancing lightly, squiring the ladies with elegance and carrying one's liquor like a gentleman were the things that mattered.

Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology.

While games are fun to play, children should grow up not just being the consumers of technology but also the creators of technology.

By learning to create technology girls learn to speak up...

The technology itself is not transformative. It's the school, the pedagogy, that is transformative.

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.

Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology.

We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.