Quotes About Education

I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility.

It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.

It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.

If the old saying is true, that what one generation learns in school is the philosophy of the next, then the philosophy of the next generation will be totalitarianism.

MENTORING Finally, since I am defining coaching, I should perhaps mention mentoring, another word that has crept into business parlance. The word originates from Greek mythology, in which it is reported that Odysseus, when setting out for Troy, entrusted his house and the education of his son Telemachus to his friend, Mentor. "Tell him all you know," Odysseus said, and thus unwittingly set some limits to mentoring.

Formular o hacer preguntas cerradas libera a las personas de tener que pensar. Hacer preguntas abiertas las obliga a pensar por sí mismas.

Every moment has a lesson for you to learn. Learn to listen.

But don't you know, Mr Stoner?' Sloane asked. 'Don't you understand about yourself yet? You're going to be a teacher.

He felt himself at last beginning to be a teacher, which is simply a man to whom his book is true, to whom is given a dignity of art that has little to do with his foolishness or weakness or inadequacy as a man.

Her moral training, both at the schools she attended and at home, was negative in nature, prohibitive in intent, and almost entirely sexual. The sexuality, however, was indirect and unacknowledged; therefore it suffused every other part of her education, which received most of its energy from that recessive and unspoken moral force. She learned that she would have duties toward her husband and family and that she must fulfill them.

Soms, ondergedoken in zijn boeken, werd hem duidelijk hoeveel hij nog niet wist, hoeveel hij nog niet gelezen had, en het was gedaan met de sereniteit waarmee hij had gewerkt toen tot hem doordrong hoeveel tijd hij in zijn leven nog had om dat allemaal te lezen, te leren wat hij moest leren.

Through it all he continued to teach and study, though he sometimes felt that he hunched his back futilely against the driving storm and cupped his hands uselessly around the dim flicker of his last poor match.

Indeed, all of our past education will in some ways hinder us; for our habits of thinking about the nature of experience have determined our own expectations as radically as the habits of medieval man determined his.

È per noi che esiste l'università, per i diseredati del mondo. Non per gli studenti, non per la disinteressata ricerca della conoscenza, né per le altre ragioni che sentite dire. Quelle sono solo una copertura, come quei pochi individui normali, idonei al mondo, che di tanto in tanto accogliamo tra noi. Ma è tutto fumo negli occhi.

the University being an asylum, a refuge from the world, for the dispossessed, the crippled.

We presuppose two things that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.

I'm glad I was a teacher.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.

Ignorance is the greatest poverty. Ignorance is death in life. There is no evil so great as ignorance. Folly is an incurable disease. A

I'm not bigoted enough to twist facts to suit what I've been taught.

Byla to zemÄ›, na které mohl ?lovÄ›k pracovat a vzdÄ›lávat ji a stále v ní nachdádzet budoucnost.

I'm not bigoted enough to twist the facts to suit what I've been taught.

Everyone starts by knowing nothing about anything, but God gives him—and even her—brains to find out with. Failure to use them is not a virtue to be praised...

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.