Education Quotes - Page 38

• We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If it is true that our lives are chaotic and we crave a shape, stories are the shapes that we put on experience, containing all the wisdom in the world. We can even choose what kind of wisdom suits us.

  Ramona Koval

  Wisdom, Learning, Stories

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• Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

  Adolf Hitler

  School, Rise To Power, History

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• I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and culture without it. But insofar as theology studies the nature of the divine, it will earn the right to be taken seriously when it provides the slightest, smallest smidgen of a reason for believing in the existence of the divine. Meanwhile, we should devote as much time to studying serious theology as we devote to studying serious fairies and serious unicorns.

  Richard Dawkins

  Business, Believe, Taken

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• Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of life. They are wrong, but our education system is such that many people don't know it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Life, Believe, Thinking

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• Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.

  Benito Mussolini

  Laughter, Inspiration, Littles

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• The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.

  Norman Cousins

  Differences, Giving, Community

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• Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

  Barack Obama

  Reading, Writing, Skills

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Reading, Writing, Light

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• The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teaching, Reading, Writing

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• All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

  Robert Frost

  Reading, Writing, Learning

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.108, Harvard University Press

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• He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

  Martial

  Reading, Writing

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• A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

  James D. Watson

  Reading, Writing, Interesting

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• You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn.

  Amy Tan

  Reading, Writing, Swimming

  Amy Tan (2001). “The Bonesetter's Daughter”, p.142, Penguin

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• Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be incorporated into a task that is necessary and relevant.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Meaningful, Children, Reading

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• I love mathematics...principally because it is beautiful; because man has breathed his spirit of play into it, and because it has given him his greatest game the encompassing of the infinite.

  Rozsa Peter

  Beautiful, Teaching, Math

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• The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side."

  Alison King

  Inspirational, Sage, Sides

  "From Sage on the Stage to Guide on the Side" by Alison King, published in "College Teaching", Volume 41, No. 1 (pp. 30-35), www.jstor.org. Winter 1993.

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• The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.

  Albert Einstein

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.63, Broadway Books

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• A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Dream, Teaching

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.303, Vintage

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• A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

  Gilbert Highet

  Inspirational, Teacher, Believe

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• When we grew up and went to school
  There were certain teachers who would
  Hurt the children any way they could
  By pouring their derision
  Upon anything we did
  Exposing every weakness
  However carefully hidden by the kids.

  Roger Waters

  Teacher, Hurt, Children

  "Song: 'The happiest days of our lives'". 1979.

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• It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents, teachers, and other authority figures who should know better from their experience. Information is about facts. Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.

  Bernie Siegel

  Teacher, Loss, Parent

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• He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process of building up, gradually, a complete unit of consciousness. And each unit of consciousness is the living unit of that great social, religious, philosophic idea towards which humankind, like an organism seeking its final form, is laboriously growing.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Religious, Building Up, Ideas

  D. H. Lawrence, David Farmer, David R. Farmer, Lindeth Vasey, John Worthen (1987). “Women in Love”, p.495, Cambridge University Press

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• The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize that the cornerstone of education is the development of the human personality, and that in this regard education is of immediate importance for the salvation of mankind.

  Maria Montessori

  Personality, Energy, Use

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