Quotes about "Education & Learning"

With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.' ”

There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them. ”

In academe, we ought to temper our criticism of the idea of self-help because, in a more complex way, it is precisely what we offer our students through our teaching. ”

I think I'm one of the hardest-training fighters in the world. ”

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. ”

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. ”

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. ”

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ”

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you. ”

Famine is about so much more than food: it is about a famine of education, democracy, health, transport, and so many other items. The food famine becomes a symptom of that vast failure. ”