Quotes About Education

His father, however, did not want Romero to continue his studies but to learn a trade. He was apprenticed by his father to one of the local carpenters, where he learned to make doors and tables

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I suppose I was lucky enough to be educated at a time when teachers still thought children could handle knowledge. They trusted us. Then there came a time when they decided that because not every kid in the class could understand or remember those things they wouldn't teach them anymore because it wasn't fair on the less good ones. So they withheld knowledge. Then I suppose the next lot of teachers didn't have the knowledge to withhold.

Imparai tutte, o quasi tutte, le cose più importanti che erano state pensate e scritte prima della mia nascita; mi abituai a guardare il mondo con cento occhi, anziché con i miei due soli, e a sentire nella mia testa cento pensieri diversi, anziché il mio solo pensiero. Diventai consapevole di me stesso e degli altri. Gli uomini, senza la lettura, non conoscono che una piccolissima parte delle cose che potrebbero conoscere.

I told her that I was a University of One, Una University, and that all day she should listen to me talk.... But when I began to expatiate, it amazed me how little I knew, and that, really, it did not require the day, but only the morning to get through it all.

Learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do.

The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.

As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.

We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.

What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.

We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.

The challenge is this: training creative, independent, and innovative artists is new to us.

One of the things that school is for is to teach our children to understand and relish the idea of intellectualism, to develop into something more than a purpose-driven tool for the industrial state.

We've been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all, to prefer fitting in with the right people, the people with economic power. Now it's your turn to stand up and stand out.

Being surrounded by educated people makes democracy stronger, and it benefits our entire economy.

Group projects are the exception in school, but they should be the norm.

The current (educational) structure, which seeks low-cost uniformity that meets minimum standards, is killing our economy, our culture, and us.

The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.

Just about everything you learned in school about life is wrong, but the wrongest thing might very well be this: Being well rounded is the secret to success.

If all we do with these tools is teach compliance and consumption, that's all we're going to get. School can and must do more than train the factory workers of tomorrow.

Great teachers are wonderful. They change lives. We need them. The problem is that most schools don't like great teachers. They're organized to stamp them out, bore them, bureaucratize them, and make them average. Why

When we try to drill and practice someone into subservient obedience, we're stamping out the artist that lives within.

The object of the new school is to teach reasonable doubt. Not the unreasonable doubt of the wild-eyed heckler, but the evidence-based doubt of the questioning scientist and the reason-based doubt of the skilled debater.

What They Should Teach in School Only two things: 1. Solve interesting problems 2. Lead SOLVE