Learning Environment Quotes

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

Give me a child for the first 7 years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.

Of all our institutions public education is the most important. Everything depends on it, the present and the future.

From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.

We need better public education and more realistic education.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.

At the end of the day, I'm a very boring academic, bogged down with academia and structure and delivering an education.

Education is the number one priority.

Schools can do extraordinary things given the chance; teachers can do remarkable things if we eliminate the paperwork that sometimes binds them and give them a chance to really teach in our schools.

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

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

I came from a home where everybody had a book.

I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.

When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.

Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They're building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well.