Education Quotes - Page 68

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

The vast majority of Americans want a government that creates the conditions for them to have a chance to get into the middle class, the kind of growth and the kind of educational opportunities. Most people would - the vast majority of Americans would much rather have a job that pays more than a welfare check.

Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind

We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.'

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

There's money, and then there's class. The two are often separated.

Instead of encouraging the student to devote himself to his studies for the sake of studying, instead of encouraging in him a real love for his subject and for inquiry, he is encouraged to study for the sake of his personal career; he is led to acquire only such knowledge as is serviceable in getting him over the hurdles which he must clear for the sake of his advancement.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

Free education and health care are essential for the welfare of the population.

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

Rather, the master question from which the mission of education research is derived: What should be taught to whom, and with what pedagogical object in mind? That master question is threefold: what, to whom, and how? Education research, under such a dispensation, becomes an adjunct of educational planning and design. It becomes design research in the sense that it explores possible ways in which educational objectives can be formulated and carried out in the light of cultural objectives and values in the broad.

The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.

The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.

American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that welearn about one another's cultures the same way we learn about sex: in the streets.