Quotes About Education

Schools in the 21st century are paying a heavy price for the errors of schools and teachers a generation ago. We are being punished for their sins.

After all, it's natural for humans, isn't it? To want to learn. Being curious, wanting answers: that's the way we are.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university ... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

tried to mix science with theology. He believed in a heaven where perfect truth presided, and he stood convinced that young children, recently arrived from that transcendent realm, were the unheeded messengers of a sacred revelation. He deemed it the work of the teacher to preserve and call forth this natural divinity of the child. If the world's teachers could find

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

Who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense - from "Progress and it's Sustainability

I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. If you wanted to create a business environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a cubicle. And if you wanted to change things, you might have to tear down both and start over.

We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.

Repeat to remember.

It turned out that they already had enough ESL teachers and what they needed was people to teach high school equivalency math. I wasn't particularly interested in high school math acquisition, but nobody ever said we were put on this earth for our own entertainment.

so I preferred to take highly specific classes with interesting titles, even when I hadn't taken the prerequisites and had no idea what was going on. I could see how my way might be called aesthetic.

You and I may go to Harvard, we may go to York of England, or go to Al Ahzar in Cairo and get degrees from all of these great seats of learning. But we will never be recognized until we recognize our women.

Therefore, there will be much opposition to him from his people who want to lead and not be followers of others. Especially the middle class, the black Christian preachers, and the college and university students who feel so proud of their worldly education and positions.

They were taught in school that fear often derives from ignorance. Once you understand a situation, it becomes far less intimidating.

Eddie has long joked that the two most useful backgrounds for a real estate broker are psychology and elementary education.

One is never too young for fine literature . . .

mostly." He had majored in American literature at Fairleigh

an education makes you good company for yourself!)

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.