Education Quotes
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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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It must be the aim of education to teach the citizen that he must first of all rule himself.
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Today in America many people are living in a virtual world. They enter it through an internet access device and they navigate freely around it, and those people who learn how to navigate better in that space are finding that they have better access to information about jobs and education and all the good things that our society produces.
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The final goal of physical education is to make strong beings. In the purely physical sense, the Natural Method promotes the qualities of organic resistance, muscularity and speed, towards being able to walk, run, jump, move on all fours, to climb, to keep balance, to throw, lift, defend yourself and to swim.
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Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.
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We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.
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A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants...In so far as it is, by definition, the training of upper servants, it includes, of course, the instilling of that kind of confidence which will enable the upper servants to supervise and direct the lower servants.
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If we create a generation of men who aren't getting an education, that's bad for women.
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This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education.
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Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.
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I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of intelligent and curious young ... [people] who read the books assigned them with a sense of adventure and discovery, discuss them with zest, and listen appreciatively to explications I may offer. What makes the process most satisfying is the conviction that ... education is mankind's most important enterprise.
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As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.
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If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.
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We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.
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I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.
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I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try the truth of any observation relating to the mind, the easiest method is to illustrate it by outward objects. If, for instance, a man was to sweat and labor all the days of his life to fill a chest which was already full, the absurdity of his vain endeavor would be glaring. In the same manner, when the human mind is filled and stuffed with notions brought thither by fallacious inclinations, there is no room for truth to enter: candor being banished, passions alone bear the sway.
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There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.
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Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
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A good education is another name for happiness.
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The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.
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In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to over-advertise an institution and to create in the public mind artificial values. There can be no absolute guarantee against its misuse.
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I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.
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People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.
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Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
