Learning Goals Quotes

No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

At its fundamentally flawed core, the aim of almost any learning program is to help us become who we are not.

We should not have 8th grade graduations. Instead we should tell the students, “You have a long way to go. Get your butt down and study.”

Many of you have been reared on the cliche that the purpose of education isn't to stuff your head with facts but to teach you how to think. Wrong.

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

I'm passionate about schoolwork because I don't like getting bad grades.

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

Study your lessons, don't settle for less.

The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

My dad, who was a teacher, used to tell me that a teacher's goal should be for every one of their students to get an A. If that's your goal every day - to make every student or player learn - then it doesn't matter if you won last year or didn't win. When next year's team shows up, I try to help every player become as good as they can be.

Well, I always wanted to be educated and be prepared.

There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.

I've put my degree on hold, but I will finish it.

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us

I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school.

They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.

The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation.

We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.

Some teachers teach for others to learn. That's not me. Some teachers teach for others to accomplish. That is me.

I looked to books to stimulate my mind and create a daily sense of purpose.

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

Rather, the master question from which the mission of education research is derived: What should be taught to whom, and with what pedagogical object in mind? That master question is threefold: what, to whom, and how? Education research, under such a dispensation, becomes an adjunct of educational planning and design. It becomes design research in the sense that it explores possible ways in which educational objectives can be formulated and carried out in the light of cultural objectives and values in the broad.

When I go back into education, I'm going to do business studies.