Quotes About Education

The more you learn, the harder the lessons get.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.

read through your tutorial essay draft. Sixty pages describing an off-white canvas. Indecipherable." She shook her head. "It's as if you never learned the most basic analytical habits, so you never had to unlearn them.

Dieser letzte Satz war einer, von dem man sich vorstellen kann, daß Randall Jarrell ihn ausschnitt und als Schutz gegen die Unzahl der ungebildeten Alleswisser dieser Welt in seine Brieftasche steckte.

Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.

My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

If I wasn't doing this, I'd be in school studying political science or socioeconomic something. I love visiting different cultures and finding out how they make up a society.

If Miss Valmont's education, treatment, and utter seclusion were most valuable for her, why should she, yet so young, and removed from the common misfortunes of life, why should she be unhappy. You, Sir, may not have perceived this effect of your system; for, although shut within the same boundary and resident under one roof, you seldom see her, and when you do see, you do not study her.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, By reiteration chiefly.

I would have the government educate the people absolutely, and then give room for the individual to develop himself into life freely. Nothing can be more hateful to me than this communist idea of quenching individualities in the mass.

I heard of the Reverend somebody Stoddart gravely proposing 'Poetry for the Million' to his audience; he assuring them that 'poets made a mystery of their art,' but that in fact nothing except an English grammar, and a rhyming dictionary, and some instruction about counting on the fingers, was necessary in order to make a poet of any man! This is a fact. And to this extent has the art, once called divine, been desecrated among the educated classes of our country.

Women have more of that patience, as a class. That ain't because we're born with it, though. It's because we're schooled to it and taught early that if we don't have it we won't never win.

Two years of finishing school not entirely wasted. I can manage an imperious exit.

She was ten months ahead of the curriculum and still bored.

Mallory," Dust hissed. "And the familiar basilisk. You sent my maidens for them." "My maidens? The world's maidens, surely. Do you begrudge them a little assistance, a little education?" "That is no Ben Kenobi. More une belle quelquesomething sans merci." "The question stands, my dearest Dust.

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes AND The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others. AND We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes; to deny the rights of property is like cutting off the hands. To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work, of a voice in choosing those who make and administer the law, a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.

The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body; for giving her the most enlarged freedom of thought and action; a complete emancipation from all forms of bondage, of custom, dependence, superstition; from all the crippling influences of fear—is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. No one has ever found two blades of ribbon grass alike, and no one will ever find two human beings alike. Seeing, then, what must be the infinite diversity in human character, we can in a measure appreciate the loss to a nation when any class of people is uneducated and unrepresented in the government.

Student engagement is the product of motivation and active learning. It is a product rather than a sum because it will not occur if either element is missing.