Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles William Eliot

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you.

John Powell

Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.

Ken Norton

When I talk to youngsters today, especially those involved in athletics, I tell them to get their education first.

Alan Greenspan

through education and training, not by restraining the competitive forces that are so essential to overall rising standards of living of the great majority of our population.

Bill Moyers

When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

Benjamin Jowett

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much more of my time than I like. Meanwhile I hope that the second time this expenditure of time will be much less, otherwise I would never be able to reconcile myself to it, even practical (astronomical) work must give far more satisfaction than if one brings up to B a couple more mediocre heads which otherwise would have stopped at A.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and the third lacks both preparation and ability. Such are the onera of a mathematical profession.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most of the few pupils who go a step further, and usually to keep the metaphor, remain in the process of gathering information, become only Halbwisser [one who has superficial knowledge of the subject], for the rarer talents do not want to have themselves educated by lecture courses, but train themselves. And with this thankless work the professor loses his precious time.

Agnes Smedley

Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.

Agnes Repplier

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

Agnes Repplier

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

Agnes Repplier

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

The perception is that religious education is just for children, but that's not the case. It would be unfair to leave the adults out. It's for the whole family, the community. We're always encouraged to have everyone join in and grow in their faith.

The only education part of the lottery will come 10 years from now when we see that the money that was supposed to go to education isn't there, ... In one respect, getting this off the table may be a good thing. Maybe now we'll start concentrating on those things that will improve the lives of our people.

We are always pleased to see the university growing. We provide a quality education for a reasonable price.

We are pleased to join them in their youth efforts while using our game of football as a positive educational resource for children.

Amy Cook

We started talking and realized we had the same interest in science education.

Casey Kasem

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for stars.

Carl Jung

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Carl Jung

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

If you're white and wealthy, Texas is a great place, however, no Texas governor Republican or Democrat is eager to raise taxes and without that you can't expand access to health care or decrease the cost of higher education.

What they have to offer is more valuable to parents because of the training, education and knowledge they have.

What he really said is that he does not intend to fund education this year.

We grew the federal government's role in education when we should have been focusing on the key missions of the federal government.

We need to save the education system. We need to remove education from the framework of the political parties that rule in the State of Israel. We need to increase the allocation of long-term national resources to education and never touch them - no matter what.

Tom Cooper

We need to start the education now instead of waiting until it happens.

We need to solve structural problems, such as agrarian reform and the structural problems of housing, employment, health, education and roads.

Anthony Browne

Something happens to our creativity as we go through the education process; most of us lose touch with it.

Mechai Viravaidya

The government budget, the lack of the declaration, the prime minister's abdication from the role, and the consequent weak public education program has resulted in what we have today: a tremendous increase,

Aaron Schock

Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.

Ahmed Zewail

In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.