Quotes About Education

Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

ecosystem than to educate

doctoral thesis? Don't tell

To study in order to know? No. To study in order to know more? No. I think it is to study in order to ask more and more questions.

We are not beginners forever, but we never stop learning.

I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.

The brain can be continuously and consistently enriched throughout your life no matter your age or access to resources.

Por qué el voto de quienes no tienen criterio ni educación ni cultura vale lo mismo que el de quienes sí la tienen?, ¿por qué un voto obtenido con un revólver en la cabeza o lavando el cerebro de la gente con publicidad o comprado con cincuenta mil pesos, vale igual que un voto expresado en libertad? Pregúntaselo a los defensores de la democracia. Esa es la gran perversidad, pero esto no se puede decir.

Para los mariateguistas, la prioridad académica era el adoctrinamiento.

Rolling eyes = feminist pedagogy.

I also believe that the boundaries of school need to be made more porous and permeable, that we need to reduce the generational segregation that defines life and learning in our society.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.

I've always hated biology who cares how a cell divides, it just does

I told my parents she's a low-income student from inner-city Philadelphia who's going through some tough times at home right now, and I'm doing this as an outreach program through Rosewood Day. Amazingly, they bought it.

School always makes me want to hibernate. - Emma

They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?

Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.

That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools.

And part of being American is respecting all people's right to be whatever they want to be and at the same time respecting your own right to bitch about it, as long as you're educated and can reason your way through your bitching.

The imagination is not somehow divorced from reason or the intellect: it's one of the primary ways we learn. I'm indebted to a literary colleague of mine for suggesting that in classical tradition, the imagination is considered "the mind's eye" (emphasis on mind), an actual faculty of the intellect.

Youth in our Sunday school class can repeat almost verbatim some obscure parable we dramatized last year, and yet they forget the core doctrinal statement we taught last week. Why is this? Why does story stick with us for so long?

accept what you've already learned: that your disability will come and go and you'll never control it completely. Educate yourself about it, become an expert manager, and use treatment whenever you think it's necessary and without regard to your yearnings to be normal. Fight the shame that comes with being ill by sharing as much with others as you think is appropriate according to your own standards of privacy, not the culture's stigma.