Caterina Fake Quotes

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.

I don't remember one thing I learned in school.

I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.

Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are.

A diploma only proves that you know how to look up answers.

Students in school cheat not to get the 'A,' but to avoid the 'C.'

My father's schooling during the 1930s was heavy with memorization; eight decades later, he is reaping the benefits.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

The quality of an education system can never exceed the quality of its teachers.

The educational system is pretty much geared to passing the next exam. You're educated to pass tests and not to understand.

I don't understand why we learn what we do for most of it is of no use to us in our careers. To get a grade, students learn just about everything and later none of this is relevant. Grades become more important than learning.

I was always a guy that would study for three hours and barely get an A on the test and you would have another guy next to me who would study for maybe 30 minutes and ace it.

THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.

The higher my GPA gets the more I realize high school is useless

I can't deny that I was an intellectual prostitute along the way many, many times in college. I can remember one examination where they said. "Describe the Devil," and in order to get 12 points on that question one had to say that the Devil was red and had a forked tail and cloven hoofs and fangs and horns on his head. So I merrily wrote this answer down and got my 12 points. I always got straight hundreds in Bible study.

The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.

In presidential campaign I released a 65-page file from the Syracuse University College of Law that showed poor grades, back in college, also. If I were plagiarizing consistently, my grades would have been better.

Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.

It's not getting any better for the American people. It seems to be getting worse. That's predictable; education is a cycle. Stupidity breeds more stupidity.