Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Rogers

You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I know is that anyone who wants to learn will learn. And maybe a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat.

Benjamin Rush

The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form of our government . . . . He must be taught to love his fellow creatures in every part of the world, but he must cherish with a more intense and peculiar affection the citizens of Pennsylvania and of the United States.

Benjamin Rush

While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life, lessen human misery, improve our country, promote population, exalt the human understanding, and establish domestic social and political happiness.

Benjamin Rush

Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had rather see the opinions of Confucius or Mahomed inculcated upon our youth than see them grow up wholly devoid of a system of religious principles.

Chris Benz

I went to Parsons. American sportswear was my education, and that is what is important to me.

James Nesbitt

I went to India with UNICEF in connection with Manchester United to raise money for children's education.

I think the Senate is somewhat in shambles. I don't think there are enough votes to pass an education plan that will pass the court's scrutiny.

It is a necessity if our objective is to provide higher quality education. It's not uncommon that a very good student has to go away to Orlando or South Florida.

I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education.

Just by the fact that 76 percent of them said we want to invest in education speaks highly when they're already paying high taxes and there are other needs in this county.

Bill Vaughan

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

Bertrand Russell

Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.

Bertrand Russell

It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary education can take no account of so aristocratic a good. I do not believe this. The joy of mental adventure is far commoner in the young than in grown men and women. ...It is rare in later life because everything is done to kill it during education.

Charles M. Schwab

The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of the men who have done something for themselves and their fellow men.

I think it's nice that it's more central. I'm an education major, so I saw it all the time, but it's good that more people can see it.

I think this year we are really focusing on education, ... We need to embrace those who set out to harm our community, because really something is wrong with them.

It is obviously only a limited window for which the (provincial) government and education matters aren't going to be interfered with.

It is not something I really want to do. I'd love to stay here the rest of my life, but his education is pretty important to us.

It is in our policy to facilitate their movement into the system so that their education is not as interrupted as their lives are,

I went on a marketing blitz. Most of my job is education.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

I studied international relations in England, and I wanted to pursue higher education and be able to analyze what was going on in Iran politically, not only in Iran, but in the Middle East.

I don't even gamble because I hate losing money. But I figure it's going to education, so it can't be that bad.

I don't feel it was a good loss. There are no good losses. But it was an educational loss.

Ideas, even those inimical to our values, must be surfaced so they can be challenged. That is where education occurs.

Big Sean

I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.

I come from a background that stresses education more than anything.

Dalton McGuinty

I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.

He concentrated on things that had a long-lasting effect. Education of children, enhancing the lives of Native Americans, our natural heritage,

Green School was a monument to education in this part of the world,

Thomas Piketty

Yeah, I am in favor of migration. But I am also in favor of education. But at the same time, I am in favor of progressive taxation. I think we need all of this. I think we don't have to choose one.

Thomas Piketty

The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.

Susan Strasberg

As far as I can see, about the only thing I've missed is a college education.

Muriel Spark

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.