Rajkumar Hirani Quotes

Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

Education is a business - the growth business. It cultivates the growth of our learners, translates the growth of new knowledge, and builds professional growth.

Teaching is so rewarding because when you see the look on student's faces when they get it, when you're able to excite them about what you're excited about; it's so rewarding, and it's so much fun.

It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

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

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

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.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.

The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.

Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are.

A diploma only proves that you know how to look up answers.

The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.

One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year.

Colleges sort as much as they teach.

There is no less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there.

A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

I think college has helped me.

I was never told that the purpose of school was to get a job at the end of it. What was pushed on me was a love of learning, probably because my parents didn't have access to a great education.

All of us just go to college and waste our time and to pass our exams. So just learning journalism does not mean I'm good at it or any of the journalists are, either. There is no difference; it's just class, and it's just college.

Too many younger people seem to prefer following celebrities instead of doing the work required to get an education that will someday lead to a job. If students today spent as much time on math and science and history as they do following these shallow celebrities, they might actually become contributors to society someday.

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

Schools can ebb and flow. It can be phenomenal one day, and then you hit fractions, and it falls apart.