Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.

Kids get influenced by other kids.

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

I went to public school up until junior high.

There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much when eight hours of the day is spent at school. As parents, we try to teach our kids to be respectful to others and teach them old values, but a lot of it is down to the schools.

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

I give the children education.

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

Students Are Not Widgets. Schools Are Not Factories.

Much of education can and should take place in schools and other formally designated community institutions. But the world beyond the schoolhouse is crucial to education, and both traditional and new media are more important than ever.

We need to sort the kids out and educate them properly. After all, they are our future.

I think children learn through their parents.

When I was little, I always got so excited about learning - until I got to the actual learning part of learning.

At a collective level, learning is an essential link in our society.