Quotes about Education
the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
— Frank Herbert
It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
— Frank Herbert
And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
— Frank Herbert
Not addressing immediate needs is an offence to the young.
— Frank Herbert
It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib
— Frank Herbert
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
— Oscar Wilde
Common Core is a big win for education.
— Bill Gates
No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
— Lou Holtz
Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.
— Ronald Reagan
The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.
— Madeleine L'Engle
As a child, when I came across a word I didn't know, I didn't stop reading the story to look it up, I just went on reading. And after I had come across the word in several books, I knew what it meant; it had been added to my vocabulary. This still happens.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic subjects, so it is in their reading for fun, for pleasure, that they must be guided into creativity. These are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin.
— Madeleine L'Engle