Quotes About Education

The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted.

Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your roadmap through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.

Between 1996 and 2002, Purdue funded more than twenty thousand pain-related educational programs, almost ten a day, seven days a week. During the same years, Purdue conducted

When I teach at Michigan, on the first day I tell the students, "You will not miss class. You will not be late to class. You will not use a laptop, or a cell phone, or wear a hat. My late-paper policy is simple: There will be no late papers, ever. That is my 'late-paper policy.' Why? This is Michigan.

When I asked star linebacker Devin Bush Jr. about this, he laughed and imitated a classmate's voice, " Ã¢â'¬ËœYou're playing a game! You get a free education! You don't have to pay for food and housing!' "Let me tell you: We pay for all that stuff every time we wake up at five-thirty in the morning. When you go home for holidays, we're practicing. When you go home for the summer, we're in class, and the weight room.

A Brown University alum, Angell's vision for Michigan was to create a university that could provide "an uncommon education for the common man.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

The founding fathers... provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

When in doubt keep reading. A book will never die on you

She could see wizarding was not going to be easy.

Her mother had fun ideas on how to raise a young lady, and they included handguns and karate as well as dancing and voice lessons.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

The human race is at war. Our biggest enemy, pure and simple, is ignorance.

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.

All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! Don't sleep with people who don't read!

Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.