Quotes About Education

Again and again, readers told me about the altered version of history they'd been taught during their required two years of state history. It was news to many of these extremely well-educated, progressive readers that Texas had fought not one, but two wars for the right to own slaves.

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any

Challenging schools to treat their students as customers with a choice, instead of inmates serving time.

Criminals are just regular people who didn't have time to read all the laws.

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

Sometimes you've gotta hide the medicine in the food. You can't slap somebody in the face with facts, all the time. It's too harsh.

People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.

By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready-for nothing in particular.

If you're not learning, you're wasting your time.

Dinosaurs are the best way to teach kids, and adults, the immensity of geologic time.

I don't miss teaching. I'm learning to take my time for myself.

I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.

Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values.

After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology

Interference with communications of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career.

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.