Quotes About Education

Learning is not filling up a box but seeing and imagining what we can create with it.

Learn well and play well.

Learning has no end until the day of death.

Nothing worth knowing can ever be taught in a classroom.

Nothing is perfect and this is the perfect reason for men to keep on learning, understanding and discovering.

It's not what you learn but it's how you learn that make the difference

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

Teachers find many children emotionally distracted, so upset and preoccupied by the explosive drama of their own family lives that they are unable to concentrate on such mundane matters as multiplication tables.

People usually forget 90 percent of what they learn in a class within 30 days. He further showed that the majority of this forgetting occurs within the first few hours after class.

The Mozart Effect comes to mind: the popular idea that listening to classical music makes students better at math.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. If you wanted to create a business environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a cubicle.

Kids praised for effort complete 50 percent more hard math problems than kids praised for intelligence.

John Bransford, a gifted education researcher, has spent many years studying what separates novice teachers from expert teachers. One of many things he noticed is the way the experts organize information. "[Experts'] knowledge is not simply a list of facts and formulas that are relevant to their domain; instead, their knowledge is organized around core concepts or 'big ideas' that guide their thinking about their domains," he cowrote in How People Learn.

an amazing 27-minute animated short called Donald in Mathmagic Land.

If you look at 4-year-olds, they are constantly asking questions. But by the time they are 6½ years old, they stop asking questions because they quickly learn that teachers value the right answers more than provocative questions.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. If you wanted to create a business environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a cubicle. And

is to teach her impulse control in her early

The fact is, the amount of TV a child should watch before the age of 2 is zero.

we must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity, in our workplaces, our homes, and especially in our schools.

Truth: The greatest pediatric brain-boosting technology in the world is probably a plain cardboard box, a fresh box of crayons, and two hours. The worst is probably your new flat-screen TV. (See "Hurray for play!" on page 129.)

Every time I lectured to a group of parents-to-be about baby brain development,

People usually forget 90 percent of what they learn in a class within 30 days. And the majority of this forgetting occurs within the first few hours after class.

One study hints that it could, though more work needs to be done. Kids with normal hearing took an American Sign Language class for nine months, in the first grade, then were administered a series of cognitive tests. Their attentional focus, spatial abilities, memory, and visual discrimination scores improved dramatically—by as much as 50 percent—compared with controls who had no formal instruction.

Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.