Educational Experiences Quotes

You may leave school, but it never leaves you.

I was about 40 when I got a glimmer of the wonders archaeology can offer, and I want kids to be able to have that for their whole lives, not just in middle-age.

To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university.

I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.

Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the content of the coursework.

Far too many bright, motivated kids are being badly served by their educational experiences - ones at elite, wealthy schools as well as underfunded ones.

I know from my experiences in life that educators had an enormous impact and influence on me. And fortunately or unfortunately, I had a lot of experience with different educators.

I went to seven colleges. I was a professional transfer student. I had to drop out 'cause I couldn't see out the back window.

I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day.

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

What I've learned over the last 6 or 7 years, I would love to teach people. I still have a lot to share with people and especially within the US.

I ended up dropping out of high school. I'm a high school dropout, which I'm not proud to say, ... I had some teachers that I still think of fondly and were amazing to me. But I had other teachers who said, 'You know what? This dream of yours is a hobby. When are you going to give it up?' I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there

Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the latest school, I would amuse myself by drawing and found that I was pretty good at it.

But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life.

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet

I'm probably one of the few people who can say I did all three types of state sector schooling.

I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it’s the most wonderful place in the world—it’s the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world … and while you don’t get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on

The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

It's definitely important for kids to learn in many different settings.

Doing things that allow you to learn something are great and I love when you have an opportunity to discover a whole new part of the world.

I really like visiting schools, but what I tell students isn't anywhere near as interesting to me as what they tell me.