Education Quotes
The essence of education is not to get a certificate or job but, to be a holistically developed person who can positively impact the society.
School fools a lot of people. Professionally, one thing is not the most that one person can be.
Just as a CEO could care less about pay equity, the university administrator is unconcerned with how many of her program graduates secure employment of any particular quality.
School is a factory where the raw material called student is turned into a product called employee.
You know you are capitalism’s ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom.
If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated.
Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.
Granted, not all uneducated women are prostitutes, and, not all prostitutes are uneducated. However, where building a family is employment, an uneducated woman's womb is her diploma.
School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan.
Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.
A diploma is a piece of paper that is used to acquire another piece of paper: an employment contract.
In a classroom, when it’s silent, they’re thinking. You’ve got to give them time to think.
To fit the individual to live and to function in the institutional life of his day.
I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here.They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.
I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you.
The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.
Educators are in the news, too. Usually that’s bad. I had a favorite college professor. He used to tell us, 'If you make CNN as a teacher, you’re probably going to jail.
My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah said 'Educating the child is everybody's business.
Are we allowing individuals to develop their talents with our current teaching methods? Is there more or maybe less we should be doing?
..English teachers often take a right-wrong stance. I'd rather my students take a thinking stance.
We are both a student and a teacher from birth. How eagerly we embrace these roles determines how fulfilled we are with our lives.
Love this quote from a teacher about their class "This is four walls around the future!
There is a great difference between enlightenment and education. The former is a discerned vital knowledge without guidance while the latter is imparting any knowledge.
Understanding proximate cause is also like understanding your mother: It can take years and then, just when you think you have her figured out, she surprises you.
Democratic ideas cannot exist without the public spheres that make them possible.
Internal democracy in schools is as important in order to ensure the true democratization of education.
It’s been said that only the educated are free, but I contend. Only those who are educated with TRUTH can be inherently free. Otherwise, you are simply indoctrinated with error.
There is nothing you can do about it. Self-education is the most important thing that can happen to you.
My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing.""You mean you went to an expensive school?
Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.