Educational Value Quotes

If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma.

We can all learn from every text. Reading the work that disgusts you can only strengthen your core beliefs. I could teach a semester-long course based only on reading the local telephone book. All stories can be taught in valuable ways.

There is no better system in the world than the U.K. education system that offers better value for money.

My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.

I have not the advantage of a classical education, and no man should, in my judgement, accept a degree he cannot read.

Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.

Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.

I don't see why a book shouldn't be intellectually sound, entertaining, and fun to read. Historians who write academic history, which is unreadable, are basically wasting their time.

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.

I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.

I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.

The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.

I don't really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It's a bad idea, terrible. I've met creative-writing majors from other places and they don't know a goddamn thing. They're the worst students. They just think they're good because they could pass.

The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness.

I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

A well-rounded education has always been an issue close to my heart.

When I got to Cal, they tried to put me in safe classes, things I could succeed at. I went to Cal for an education. That's definitely problematic. You see athletes taking majors that don't add up to anything.

MasterChef Junior for me was about working closely with these kids and getting them to reeducate their parents to understand that food is as important educationally as Math and English and it's important that we don't take it for granted.

I didn't want to do 'The Fluffy Puppy Learns to Hold Hands!' or 'Kitty Gets a Box to Play In!' There's a place for that for the little ones - some kids need that stuff. But I'm too dark and sarcastic.

School would have been pretty dead really for me without music. I liked IT, and English was all right, but that was it.

I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.

Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.

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