Henry Adams Quotes

It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.

The cost of a university education is risen faster than the rate of inflation for decades.

We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.

I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.

Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.

The less that is applied to education, the less they [the people] will have to pay in taxation

If You Think Education Is Expensive, Wait Until You See How Much Ignorance Costs in the 21st Century.

How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.

That just doesn't make sense, that government should be making money off students.

The cost of a college degree has skyrocketed out of control.

Knowledge is a free good. The biggest cost in its transmission is not in the production or distribution of knowledge, but in its assimilation. This is something that all teachers know.

... there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating and remaking what has been taught.

I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher - a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned. But in our modern times we have so many students to teach that we have to try to find some substitute for the ideal.

Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

If you’re not familiar with it, a college degree is a thing that we tell our kids to buy with money they don’t have, in hopes that it will help them make money they might earn, which will give them the ability to pay back the money they spent in order to make the money they’re paying it back with.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

There is a much bigger issue with student loan rates, the cost of tuition; those are some huge problems that need to be resolved.

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

The true measure of your education is not what you know, but how you share what you know with others.

It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week, and better understood and retained, by sixth-grade students. Child-centeredness does not mean lack of rigor or standards; it does mean finding the best match between curricula and children's developing interests and abilities.

Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.