Mortimer Adler Quotes

Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.

A good education alters the judgment and manners…

Education deserves particular focus because its effects are so long-lasting.

Definitely, in any teaching situation, there are the clueless students; then there are the ones who get it a little quicker.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Few things are as essential as education.

Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

It's important that kids learn, but I really don't like all the testing, testing, testing.

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.

Reading is important.

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.

Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates.

Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend. The national mental health strategy recognises the important role adult learning can play for people recovering from mental illness.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level.

Well, I don't think that the SAT is a scam.

I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.

Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.

Parents have a right to know whether their children are mastering the basics.

The basis of anything is education, so that people not only become qualified, but essentially become able to create new knowledge