education

"What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less."

"Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years."

"I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!"

"A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity."

"I grew up in libraries, and I hope I've learned never to take them for granted. A thriving library is the heart of its community, providing access to information and educational opportunities, bringing people together, leveling the playing field, and archiving our history."

"To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday."

"Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational."

"People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers."

"In this world, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it."

"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

"Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education."

"Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects."

"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."

"A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future"."

"Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it,"yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation."

"Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective."

"The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions."

"The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions."

"Directing the mind to stay in the present can be a formidable task."

"Most children, even very bright ones, need constant review and practice to truly own a concept in grammar, math or science. In schools today, on paper it may appear that kids are learning skills, but in reality they are only renting them, soon to forget what they've learned over the weekend or summer vacation."