Quotes About Education

Many students fail examinations not because they don't know anything but because they lack confidence to prove that they know anything or everything." ? Asuni LadyZeal

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

I've always been homeschooled, so doing it on set is kind of the same thing. My mom makes it very interactive - we'll get a book on chocolate and learn how to make it, or she will buy antique items. I love military history, the mechanics and strategy of it.

She used to be a schoolteacher, but she has no class now.

Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that making systems work — whether in healthcare, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty — is the great task of our generation as a whole.

We recruit for attitude and train for skill

Our cultural presuppositions affect the development of our theology and what we believe about the Bible. Our culture provides a semantic, conceptual framework through which we view God and the Bible. Most of us who are in ministry in evangelical pulpits have been educated under a Western European influence. The institutions where we have trained were heavily influenced by a European system using European theologians

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.

A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can't we study peace?

Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.

An ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

Vivimos una crisis educacional sin igual. Estamos solucionando nuestros problemas exteriores, pero no los internos.

Si no reconstruimos la educación, las sociedades modernas se volverán un gran hospital psiquiátrico.

Estimados educadores, debemos tener en mente que los débiles condenan, los fuertes comprenden, los débiles juzgan, los fuertes perdonan.

Não havia nas universidades modelos de treinamento, seja nos cursos de psicologia, de sociologia, na formação de psiquiatras ou de diplomatas, para construção de pontes socioemocionais nas situações de conflito. Éramos maduros para usar tecnologia digital, mas meninos para usar ferramentas de gestão da emoção.

Durante os dois primeiros anos do ensino secundário, eu tinha apenas dois cadernos e quase nada estava escrito neles. Era difícil adaptar-me a uma educação que não provocava a minha inteligência. Alguns, naquela época, vendo o meu aparente desinteresse, achavam que eu não seria nada na vida. Mas dentro de mim, havia uma explosão de ideias. Pensar era uma aventura que me encantava.» Pergaminho, 2004: p. 72

Às vezes me sinto um louco falando para pessoas falsamente saudáveis – confessou Marco Polo. – Uma voz solitária gritando que, se treinamos dirigir carros, empresas, operar computadores, deveríamos treinar dirigir a emoção e gerenciar nossos pensamentos para sermos minimamente autores de nossa história. Mas simplesmente nenhuma escola ensina isso. Deixe sua mente irresponsavelmente solta que o risco de se acidentar e adoecer será grave.

Intelectualii care nu-si incanta elevii nu-i influenteaza, nu formeaza oameni care gandesc, ci repetitori de idei.

Educatia restransa trage dupa sine o psihatrie extinsa, caci vom avea tot mai multi bolnavi.

La comparación sólo es educativa cuando es estimulante y no despreciativa.

Los padres que no enseñan a sus hijos a tener una visión crítica de la publicidad, de los programas de televisión, de la discriminación social, los convierten en presas fáciles del sistema predatorio.

La vida es una gran escuela que eneseña poco a quienes no saben leerla.