Quotes Tagged "education"

You would think that after fifteen years of war on terror, waged by a country with nuclear submarines, all terror on earth would be destroyed. I’m shocked that nary a nightmare has made it out alive. Yet somehow, killing the shit out of people – thousands and thousands of people – doesn’t make the living not scared. What you do wind up with are millions of refugees and armies of genocidal fanatics.

Universities are reluctant to update their syllabus as per industry requirement, not because their students will have to take the trouble to learn new things but because their professors will have to take the trouble to teach new things.

Compulsion – nonconsensual education – requires violence; it requires complete control over what students put into their brain, the people they are exposed to, the places they are authorized to be, and oftentimes, with free lunch programs, what food goes into their body. Compulsory systems are resentful of families who do not enforce homework or dress code policies; are reluctant to allow parents into its buildings except once or twice a year on special “open house” days; and fear parents who choose to homeschool.

School vision statements often read something like, “We believe all kids can learn” or “life-long learners” or something silly like that. What an absurd thing to put in writing! “We, at Grassy Hill Elementary, believe all Kindergarteners can get taller” or “We, the Prospect Junior High cafeteria staff, believe that all kids can and will eat food.

When education is free and available instantaneously, innovation comes from valuable transformational relationships, not transactions.

A fool will always rely on what someone else says, however an intelligent person would use critical thinking to justify the rationality of statements made by others before embracing their influence.

Stupidity arise for unwillingness to study.

Wisdom accumulates in the cracks of personal experience and the crevices of bad judgments.

All the gifts which fortune bestows she can easily take away; but education, when combined with intelligence, never fails, but abides steadily on to the very end of life.

Creativity is child-like curiousity..

Something'll turn up.

Getting degree only makes someone literate to the society or the nation. But sometime their uncultured acts make them illiterate. Cause they have uneducated mind. Their minds have never got enlightenment with the true education that supposed to make them better person.

Creativity is curiosity.

Child labor — a social ill that continues to plague Indian society

There is no higher priority for those who chose a university career than acting in the students’ best interest. That’s because students are the core of the university.

Practical experience can coney a person's actual fundemental understanding of a specific idea with the inclusion of supporting & reliable evidence rather than only using his or her pure ancedotal beliefs.

The idea that someone is more knowledgeable simply because of the greater amount of time they have spent on this Earth is one of the greatest fallacies ever conceived; it does not matter how long you have been on this Earth but what you have spent your time doing.

A man act according to his thoughts.

To learn is to seek the light.

(...) to be human is to be with humans. Humans are not merely in the world, they are with it and with one another.