Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Tillotson

How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they would fall into an exact poem, yea, or so much as make a good discourse in prose? And may not a little book be as easily made by chance as this great volume of the world?

John Sterling

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

John Spratt

Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.

Martin Luther

It is cheering to note that [Martin] Luther (1524) did not see why schools should not be fun as well: "Now since the young must leap and jump, or have something to do, because they have a natural desire for it which should not be restrained (for it is not well to check them in everything) why should we not provide for them such schools, and lay before them such studies?

Martin Luther

As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

Martin Luther

I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope and the books of the sophists.

Martin Luther

I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology, too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate. . . . It is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily.

Martin Luther

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

Martin Luther

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Martin Luther

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

Martin Luther

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

Martin Luther

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

Martin Luther

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

Martin Luther

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

Martin Luther

I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which means are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must be corrupt.

Nancy Astor

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.

Moses Hadas

I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of intelligent and curious young ... [people] who read the books assigned them with a sense of adventure and discovery, discuss them with zest, and listen appreciatively to explications I may offer. What makes the process most satisfying is the conviction that ... education is mankind's most important enterprise.

Seth Godin

Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing.

Seth Godin

The only purpose of customer service is to change feelings.

Seth Godin

Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn't.

Slick Rick

While Dawn worked two jobs to meet ends, her son was busy cutting school and hanging with his friends.

Skeet Ulrich

I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.

Simone Veil

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

Sinclair Lewis

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

Rajneesh

Knowledge is not information, it's transformation.

Socrates

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

Terry Leahy

Follow the customer, if they change, we change.

Margaret Mead

The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average teachers approximate the performance of good teachers.

Margaret Mead

I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way that I devoutly believed in but could not explain, I expected to become a person.

Margaret Mead

Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

Margaret Mead

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Margaret Halsey

If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means -- from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.