Education Quotes
Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and they should be permitted to make that choice.
Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.
I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.
We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There are classes on...gym. Physical Education.
Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.
You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.
The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.
In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.
We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.
I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.
Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.
most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.
The earth, the sea and air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of every nation.
Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.
Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.
Parents do not own their children. They have no ‘natural right’ to control their education fully.
Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.
I never went to college. I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off. It's been a great adventure, and I've outlived my adversaries.
The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.
The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.
Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.
