Quotes About Education

Turning into a vampire is bad enough – I don't need to flunk out of school on top of it.

Parents have become so convinced educators know what is best for children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

We were taught that things like grades, being good enough, money, and doing things the right way, are more important than love.

There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

Pero los judíos, además, son conocidos por la forma en que estimulan los logros intelectuales en sus hijos.

Giving people a lot of consumer products but not giving them information is like giving people lots of candy but withholding basic nourishment.

Are our education and economic policies a prescription for economic growth for any but a few?

Por grandes y profundos que sean los conocimientos de un hombre, el día menos pensado encuentra en el libro que menos valga a sus ojos, alguna frase que le enseña algo que ignora

In these enlightened times, mademoiselle, we only believe what is agreeable to us, and what suits our own wishes, tastes, and opinions. Ca va sans dire. We cannot be forced to accept a Deity against our reason. That is a grand result of modern education.

Life felt hideously empty. But she told herself that was only because women are educated to think that marriage will be a sudden panacea to all emptiness, and although she'd fought off such notions, she had no doubt been infected by them.

The seeds of who I am now had been planted. Fools aren't born, I wrote in my notebook one day during ethics class. They are watered and grown like weeds by institutions such as Christianity.

Think how much less stupefying the last fifty years might have been if people had actually read Marx.

The alienation, the downright visceral frustration, of the new American ideologues, the bone in their craw, is the unacknowledged fact that America has never been an especially capitalist country. The postal system, the land grant provision for public education, the national park system, the Homestead Act, the graduated income tax, the Social Security system, the G.I. Bill -- all of these were and are massive distributions or redistributions of wealth meant to benefit the population at large.

Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.

When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists.

We are in the process of disabling our most distinctive achievement - our educational system - in the name of making the country more like itself.

If we educate them well, we give them the means to create a future that we cannot anticipate. If we cheat them, they will have the relatively meager future we have prepared for them.

Many teachers in the humanities have treated it as true that this country was always fundamentally capitalist, intending the word to mean more or less what they think Karl Marx intended by it. In 99.5 percent of cases they have never read a page of Marx, so they have no idea what he was describing.

In college all of them had studied the putative effects of deracination, which were angst and anomie, those dull horrors of the modern world. They had been examined on the subject, had rehearsed bleak and portentous philosophies in term papers, and they had done it with the earnest suspension of doubt that afflicts the highly educable.

So the congregation took up collections to put him in college and then to send him to Germany. And he came back an atheist.

While Euclid himself may not have been the greatest mathematician who ever lived, he was certainly the greatest teacher of mathematics.

The Don sighed. "Well, then I can't talk to you about how you should behave. Don't you want to finish school, don't you want to be a lawyer? Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.

Like any other parent he wanted his children to go to better schools and mix with better companions

A person who does not read, or reads little, or reads only trash, is a person with an impediment: he can speak much but he will say little, because his vocabulary is deficient in the means for self-expression. This is not only a verbal limitation. It represents also a limitation in intellect and imagination. It is a poverty of thought, for the simple reason that ideas, the concepts through which we grasp the secrets of our condition, do not exist apart from words.