Educational Materials Quotes

All of the insights that we might ever need have already been captured by others in books. The important question is this: In the last ninety days, with this treasure of information that could change our lives, our fortunes, our relationships, our health, our children and our careers for the better, how many books have we read?

To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not

There are only two kinds of math books: Those you cannot read beyond the first sentence, and those you cannot read beyond the first page.

How do you know that?" "Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

Let us pick up our books and pencils. They are our most powerful weapon.

Books are the training weights of the mind.

You missed World Hist." "Did you get notes for me?" "No. I thought you were dead in a ditch.

Wireless is the largest information, communication, and technology platform in history, and mobile broadband is transforming how we can deliver educational materials and experiences to all students. The technology now exists to support learning on a massive scale and advance the 21st century skills needed to compete in the global economy.

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from 'audio-visual aids' - flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.

Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.

Every time I come across learning items of interest, I'll send distribution voice mail to the appropriate group in the organization.

There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone call from the frankly interesting.

Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.

I like things that are educational and educational. I like things that are inspirational.

The stereograph is a superior kind of text, and a good teacher will not have so much trust in mere print.

All we do is read the stupid textbook," said Ron.

Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.

What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn?

I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

This question of free text books in public schools seems to me one that should be given more consideration than has been done in the past. New York City provides them, individual towns and villages do the same, but the vast number of rural schools, particularly in poorer districts, put the burden on the parents to buy the books the children need.

I'm pushing - on a bipartisan basis, actually - to get federal support for the creation of high-quality textbooks that can be downloaded for free on the Internet.