You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
Dr. SeussResearch shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.
Bill GatesWhat I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.
C. S. LewisLectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.
Bill GatesEducation is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
Thomas SowellI think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.
Alice WalkerFor me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.
Michelle ObamaUnfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.
Bill GatesEverything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
Mark TwainI was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.
Richard P. FeynmanAfter two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
Jackie RobinsonI never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.
Abraham LincolnIt is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.
Alexander Graham BellWe cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Galileo GalileiIf you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.
Dan QuayleStudies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.
Stephen CoveyUntil justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIn so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
Maya AngelouI just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.
Greta ThunbergToo often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.
Colin PowellEverybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar WildeCreating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.
Thomas SowellWhen I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.
Jackie ChanYou send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.
Virginia WoolfIn my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.
Stephen HawkingI am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
HeraclitusOur schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.
Thomas SowellWe do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
PlatoPersonally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘
Terry PratchettPurity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Mahatma GandhiOn the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.
Nelson MandelaLearned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
James MadisonThe most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
Aldous HuxleyI was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.
J. ColeAre we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?
Barack ObamaWe are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWe are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.
Robert GreeneWhat spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
James MadisonThere are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.
Robert Baden-PowellThere is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Will RogersFirst figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.
Richard P. FeynmanThe multitude of books is making us ignorant.
VoltaireThere was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.
Kamala HarrisAs a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.
John KennedyIn American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.
Bill GatesEverything I learned I learned from the movies.
Audrey HepburnA self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
Henny YoungmanI believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.
Stephen CoveyMy mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya AngelouWe’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
Dan QuayleI am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerCommon Core is a big win for education.
Bill GatesSoap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
Mark TwainOnly the educated are free.
EpictetusThe schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.
Will RogersIf a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
PlatoUnemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.
Bill GatesAt the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.
Fidel CastroSwimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.
Robert Baden-PowellEducation comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
Napoleon Hill