Education Quotes

A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy.

~ Debasish Mridha

Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.

~ David Brooks

The insights given by a great professor are a privilege to receive. To be a teacher, by contrast, calls for more ingenuity and patience; it is the canny art of coaxing insights out of the students themselves.

~ Caitlin Keiper

Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind.

~ Will Durant

Kids don't always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react strongly. Otherwise, they just take in the experience and move on to the next one.

~ Martin Sheen

As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead freed his mind from worry and facilitated fresh, lucid thought.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

Lyndon Johnson knew how to make the most of such enthusiasm and how to play on it and intensify it. He wanted his audience to become involved. He wanted their hands up in the air. And having been a schoolteacher he knew how to get their hands up. He began, in his speeches, to ask questions.

~ Robert A. Caro

The overemphasis on standardized tests forces teachers to teach the same restricted, unintuitive curriculum. Longtime educator Brent Evans has said that today's schools are organized as assembly lines, (running at a set speed) and with each worker (teacher) at designated places (way levels) on the assembly line performing predetermined actions on products (students) considered to be somewhat generic (one-size-fits-all) and passive (waiting to be filled or formed to the desired shape).

~ Brent Evans

How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?

~ David Brooks

Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better.

~ Rebecca Goldstein

Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.

~ Jeff Myers

(William) Deresiewicz offers a vision of what it takes to move from adolescence to adulthood. Everyone is born with a mind, he writes, but it is only through introspection, observation, connecting the head and the heart, making meaning of experience and finding an organizing purpose that you build a unique individual self.

~ David Brooks

Ehimlite universities are strong at delivering their commercial mission. They are pretty strong in developing their cognitive mission. But when it comes to the sort of growth Deresiewicz is talking about, everyone is on their own. An admissions officer might bias her criteria slightly away from the Résumé God and toward the quirky kid. A student may privately wrestle with taking a summer camp job instead of an emotionally vacuous but résumé-padding internship. But these struggles are informal, isolated and semi-articulate.

~ David Brooks

Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process.

~ Andre Agassi

Deal mildly with his youth; for young hot colts, being rag's, do rage the more.

~ William Shakespeare

His Majesty has done absolutely nothing but waste his time darling around eating sweets, contributing to the boy's adolescent chubiness, and to the sense of the country's political drift. Rather than being encouraged to govern, the Shah's courtiers preferred to encourage him in his idleness.

~ Charles Emmerson

Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.

~ Gregory Of Nyssa

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying.

~ Ron Suskind

You think you're a role model, and they (protégés)turn around and tell you you're a negative role model.

~ Judith Rodin

I was determined to get them away from the idea that their education is a private experience.

~ Joan Countryman

I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject.

~ William Zinsser

Education is the key which opens the magical door of wisdom which reveals the beauty and purpose of life.

~ Debasish Mridha

It is education that grows flowers in innocent minds to reveal beauty.

~ Debasish Mridha

Education is a candle that kindles and enlightens our mind.

~ Debasish Mridha

Education is the key which opens the magical door of wisdom which reveals the beauty.

~ Debasish Mridha

True education does not fill our minds with facts but teach us how to think to gain wisdom.

~ Debasish Mridha

Education illuminates us with the lights of knowledge and wisdom.

~ Debasish Mridha

Education is the transportation of the mind.

~ Debasish Mridha

Real education is about revolution.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Preparation for the future was necessary, and he was willing to admit that the great change would perhaps come in the upheaval of a revolution. But he argued that revolutionary propaganda was a delicate work of high conscience. It was the education of the masters of the world. It should be as careful as the education given to kings.

~ Joseph Conrad

Relationships are where we humans get our greatest education.

~ Pamela Cummins

education without inspiration is only recipe for desperation

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The merits and services of Christianity have been industriously extolled by its hired advocates. Every Sunday its praises are sounded from myriads of pulpits. It enjoys the prestige of an ancient establishment and the comprehensive support of the State. It has the ear of rulers and the control of education. Every generation is suborned in its favor. Those who dissent from it are losers, those who oppose it are ostracised; while in the past, for century after century, it has replied to criticism with imprisonment, and to scepticism with the dungeon and the stake. By such means it has induced a general tendency to allow its pretensions without inquiry and its beneficence without proof.

~ Joseph Mazzini Wheeler

Ultimately, classroom teachers are the targets of this anger, as they are the public face of the education system. As a group, teachers work very hard with limited resources. They are called upon to equalize the inequities our society creates, and to offer not just equal educational opportunities, but equal educational outcomes to all children.

~ Christopher Danielson

What hurts me is the fact that in India, a good doctor is one whom you have to take an appointment with even before you fall sick. Else, you will die but not get treated. A good school is one that won't admit you even if you are in Lower Kindergarten. A good minister is one won't meet you till are some VIP. I want to change this in my lifetime by democratizing education and opportunities.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

In the twenty-first century, we use a nineteenth-century school model with twentieth-century values. There’s clearly something wrong with this picture.

~ Zander Sherman

We got up at 6am to go to school for a few years and we found it so challenging. Some people in our country have woken up at 6am every single morning for decades now so that this nation can wake up and see great mornings. I salute all those wonderful super humans who are inspiring a better tomorrow. Thank you, Teachers!

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Life is science.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn't sound dumb, and I hated how it was all just a game of trying to figure out what the teacher wanted to hear and then saying it.

~ John Green

Dewey believed that education has a practical function and should not be seen as a series of pointless hurdles to jump over before 'real life' begins. Education isn't a preamble to life; it's part of life, and it exists to solve practical human problems and meet human needs.

~ Gregory Bassham