All Quotes By Tag: Education

“You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.”

“I drink cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself.”

“Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.”

“Fake is the new real,You gotta keep a lot a shit to yourself.”

“Happiness will grow if you plant the seeds of love in the garden of hope with compassion and care.”

“Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.”

“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”

“Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child’s relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don’t know as much as we think we know.”

“The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It’s proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done by gathering or “accessing” what we now call “information” – which is to say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.”

“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”

“What grinds me the most is we’re sending kids out into the world who don’t know how to balance a checkbook, don’t know how to apply for a loan, don’t even know how to properly fill out a job application, but because they know the quadratic formula we consider them prepared for the world`With that said, I’ll admit even I can see how looking at the equation x -3 = 19 and knowing x =22 can be useful. I’ll even say knowing x =7 and y= 8 in a problem like 9x – 6y= 15 can be helpful. But seriously, do we all need to know how to simplify (x-3)(x-3i)??And the joke is, no one can continue their education unless they do. A student living in California cannot get into a four-year college unless they pass Algebra 2 in high school. A future psychologist can’t become a psychologist, a future lawyer can’t become a lawyer, and I can’t become a journalist unless each of us has a basic understanding of engineering.Of course, engineers and scientists use this shit all the time, and I applaud them! But they don’t take years of theater arts appreciation courses, because a scientist or an engineer doesn’t need to know that ‘The Phantom of the Opoera’ was the longest-running Broadway musical of all time.Get my point?”

“[Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively]”Don’t they teach you anything in your schools?””Not about this.””Pity. I suppose that’s what comes of your main education flowing from Google.”

“I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I’m in the wrong building.”