Angela Davis Quotes

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

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

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

Themes around education and learning run through my work.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

As one who has taught mathematics at all levels of university instruction, I am well aware of the negative attitude of so many students toward the subject. There are many reasons for this, one of them no doubt being the esoteric, dry way in which we teach the subject. We tend to overwhelm our students with formulas, definitions, theorems, and proofs, but we seldom mention the historical evolution of these facts, leaving the impression that these facts were handed to us, like the Ten Commandments, by some divine authority.

Education is, in the end, about individual interactions and about learning.

One of the tragedies of our educational system is that we've taken this incredibly interesting subject - how the universe works - and made it boring.

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

I worked among many famous philosophers, and I tried to observe how they treated students. I knew which ones I wanted to be like, and which ones I didn't.

The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

A Socrates in every classroom.

I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.

Perhaps I was always intensely curious, but my Columbia education gave me a framework and a perspective to investigate new things - things that could be put into a historical and philosophical lineage.

At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.

A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.

It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.