Quotes about education
education mind armor
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind. Charles Caleb Colton
education teaching knowledge
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
education prayer men
An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate. Charles Stanley
educational clothes giving
Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life. Alan Watts
education learning buddhism
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
education country government
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country. Al Sharpton
education learning school
Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore. Al Pacino
education self-confidence independence
Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence. Al MacInnis
education jobs people
My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems. Akio Morita
education children school
The zooming wealth of the top 1 percent is a problem, but it's not nearly as big a problem as the tens of millions of Americans who have dropped out of high school or college. It's not nearly as big a problem as the 40 percent of children who are born out of wedlock. It's not nearly as big a problem as the nation's stagnant human capital, its stagnant social mobility and the disorganized social fabric for the bottom 50 percent. David Brooks
education perspective innovation
If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti. David Allen
education thinking mail
Passing the SAT: My personal theory is that it has to do with how much money you send them in the mail. I think the amounts they tell you to send are actually just suggested minimum donations - if you get my drift. Dave Barry
education trying large-groups
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
education positive-energy important
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism. David Suzuki
educational marketing mountain
The rise of the citizen review site is a sobering development. No longer are you on top of the mountain, blasting your marketing message down to the masses through your megaphone. All of a sudden, the masses are conversing with one another. If your service or product isn't any good, they'll out you. David Pogue
education school learning
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. Carl Sagan
education atheist thinking
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
educational past circles
Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system. Carter G. Woodson
education information mere
The mere imparting of information is not education.
education giving democracy
In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
education issues educated
To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us. Caroline Kennedy
education bland university
[On U.S. universities:] The bland leading the bland. Camille Paglia
education prisoner
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.
education book mind
The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor. C. Northcote Parkinson
education teacher teaching
Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours. Charles Lamb
education heart mind
He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby. Chanakya
education spiritual moving
The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
education wisdom blow
The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
education wise men
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
education wisdom heart
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
education learned-person youth
Education beats the beauty and the youth.
education flower wind
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
education cutting tree
Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.