Quotes About Education

I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano's class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...

The naive idea that, through education, one can transmit culture to all of society is destroying 'higher culture', because the only way of achieving this universal democratization of culture is by impoverishing culture, making it ever more superficial.

Ni en la guerra debe haber muertos inutiles. Usted me entiende, vaya al colegio y trate en el futuro de que la muerte del cadete Arana sirve para algo.

No era el deseo de aprender, de triunfar, lo que te confinaba en la biblioteca, sino de marearte, intoxicarte, perderte en esas materias —ciencias o letras, daba igual— para no pensar, para ahuyentar los recuerdos dominicanos. —Pero

la educación era indispensable y debía ser financiada

Por eso afirmaba que, para contrarrestar el estado de ignorancia y estupidez que podía acarrear a los trabajadores lo mecánico de su tarea, la educación era indispensable y debía ser financiada, para quienes no podían costeársela, por el Estado o la sociedad civil.

Aprender a leer es lo más importante que me ha pasado en la vida

Por esa razón es tan importante, para el liberalismo, ofrecer a todos los jóvenes un sistema educativo de alto nivel que asegure en cada generación un punto de partida común, que permita luego las legítimas diferencias de ingreso de acuerdo al talento, al esfuerzo y al servicio que cada ciudadano presta a la comunidad.

Robbe-Grillet dice: «No, la novela no tiene que educar políticamente a nadie; la novela es fundamentalmente un arte».

El «cupo escolar» diseñado por él ha dado excelentes resultados en los países que lo han aplicado, como Suecia

Arévalo quisiera hacer de Guatemala una democracia, como los Estados Unidos, país que admira y tiene como modelo. Los soñadores suelen ser peligrosos, y en este sentido el doctor Arévalo lo es. Su proyecto no tiene la menor posibilidad de realizarse. ¿Cómo se podría convertir en una democracia moderna un país de tres millones de habitantes, el setenta por ciento de los cuales son indios analfabetos que apenas han salido del paganismo, o todavía

Bagaimana bisa penulis-penulis ini menjadikan sastra sebagai takdir, sebagai militansi, di tengah mayoritas orang yang tidak bisa membaca atau tidak mampu membeli buku, atau minoritas yang bisa, tetapi tidak suka membaca?

Is there anything more glorious than a professor? Forget about his molding the minds, the future of a nation - a dubious assertion; there's little you can do when they tend to emerge from the womd predestined for Grand Theft Auto Vice City.

The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of self-expression. We read because language renders unto us the vitality of real and imagined experience.

I wanted to be an educated, liberated woman. And if the pursuit of knowledge meant getting cancer, so be it.

To educate myself, I had to understand everything. Starting with myself, me, Marji, the woman.

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

Really, although it's a great place to live, Ottawa's a rather backwater capital of a very decentralized state where power over important issues like education, health care and social services lies with the provinces.

Together, teaching and learning are the soul of creativity. Our creative vitality arises from our generosity as teachers coupled with our humility as learners. The two cannot be separated; they are the very heartbeat of the creative self.

Young evangelicals are likely to leave their faith because they are not able to articulate their own faith, and many lack a biblical worldview.

Los niños de mi colegio son estúpidos. Pero se supone que no he de llamarlos estúpidos, ni siquiera aunque sea eso lo que son. Se supone que he de decir que tienen dificultades de aprendizaje o que tienen necesidades especiales.

Then, when I've got a degree in maths, or physics, or maths and physics, I will be able to get a job and earn lots of money and I will be able to pay someone who can look after me and cook my meals and wash my clothes, or I will get a lady to marry me and be my wife and she can look after me so I can have company and not be on my own.

School might have been shit, but at least it was simple.

Then, when I've got a degree in maths, or physics, or maths and physics, I will be able to get a job and earn lots of money and I will be able to pay someone who can look after me and cook my meals and wash my clothes, or I will get a lady to marry me and be my wife and she can look after me so I can have company and not be on my own.