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Education Quotes
"The purpose of education should be character-building."
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"We cannot improve ourselves or our country without improving our educational system and educating ourselves."
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"It is crucial to understand the difference between knowledge, which are facts and data, wisdom, which is your ability to judge and determine which aspects of your knowledge are applicable and useful to your life, and insight, which is the deepest level of knowing based on experience, and the most meaningful to your life and success."
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"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
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"Personal experience is the slowest way of learning. Combine your personal experience with other people's experiences."
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"Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society."
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"Yet that is considered an excellent school, and I dare say it would be if the benighted lady did not think it necessary to cram her pupils like Thanksgiving turkeys, instead of feeding them in a natural and wholesome way. It is the fault with most American schools, and the poor little heads will go on aching till we learn better."
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"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."
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"A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents."
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"I learned the joke at the core of American self-improvement: knowledge was so much junk to be processed one way or another at great universities. The real treasure the great universities offered was a lifelong membership in a respected artificial extended family."
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"Then said a teacher , speak to us of teaching . And he said :The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple among his followers gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.The astronomer may spaeak to you of his understanding of space , but he cannot give you his understanding.The musician may sing to you of the rythem which is in all space , but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rythem nor the voice that echoes it .And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure , but he cannot conduct you thither .For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man ."
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"If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'."
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"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
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"A first-rate college library with a comfortable campus around it is a fine milieu for a writer. There is, of course, the problem of educating the young. I remember how once, between terms, not at Cornell, a student brought a transistor set with him into the reading room. He managed to state that one, he was playing "classical music; that two, he was doing it "softly; and that three, "there were not many readers around in summer. I was there, a one-man multitude."
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"Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons)."
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"A scholar knows not to waste time rediscovering information already known."
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"Learning becomes the knowledge builder and we can define learning through the information it absorbs and the capability it builds."
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"A good teacher is one, that never stops listening; a good listener is one, that never stops teaching."
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"You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life."
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"I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time."
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"Well, I should like to see you go to college, Anne, but if you never do, don't grow discontented about it. We make our own lives wherever we are, after all... college can only help us do it more easily."
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"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother."
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"In studying the psychological significance of a religious or political doctrine, we must first bear in mind that the psychological analysis does not imply a judgement concerning the truth of the doctrine one analyzes. This latter question can be decided only in terms of the logical structure of the problem itself."
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"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."
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"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."
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"Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
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"Do you understand any of this?' he said, pointing to the lines and symbols that covered the massive screens.'Some people understand the value of an education.'Hale stretched and crossed his legs, the settled his arm around Kat's shoulders.'That's sweet, Kat. Maybe later I'll buy you a university. And an ice cream.''I'd settle for the ice cream.''Deal."
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"The teaching must, of course, work with the best part of the individual, must be directed to his or her real capacity."
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"Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults."
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"Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law."
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"That was a good mark in Latin, and I am pleased with your steady improvement in it."
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