Quotes about Education

To have a master and teacher is not the same thing as being mastered and taught.

From first days in school, we are taught to listen to everything and everyone but ourselves, to take in all our clues about living from the people and powers around us.

Educate our students as whole people, and they will bring all of who they are to the demands of being human in private and public life. The present and future well being of humankind asks nothing less of us.

This means that every moment of discipline and correction must be accompanied with instruction.

It's important for nerds to realize, too, that school is not life. School is a strange, artificial thing, half sterile and half feral. It's all-encompassing, like life, but it isn't the real thing. It's only temporary, and if you look, you can see beyond it even while you're still in it.

I think of Christians who, having been raised to read the Genesis creation story as literal science and history, leave for college, watch the History Channel, or log onto the internet, and find out that fossils and radiometric dating are in fact not hoaxes. That's how nice Christian college freshmen become atheists by Christmas break. If your faith can unravel that quickly, it's enough to make you question whether your faith is worth the effort at all.

They taught throughout Judah, taking with them the Book of the Law of the LORD. They went throughout the towns of Judah and taught the people.

Will they not teach you and tell you, and speak from their understanding?

for gaining wisdom and discipline, for comprehending words of insight,

Wisdom is supreme; so acquire wisdom. And whatever you may acquire, gain understanding.

I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.

Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning.