Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.
Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.
If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education.
Everything having to do with human training and education has to be re-examined in light of neuroplasticity.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.
I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.
Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.
Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.
The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.
By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
Education is everything - education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.
When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.
The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.
One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.
I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.
My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.
My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.
The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.
Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.
The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.
Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.
Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.
One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.
Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.