Quotes about education
education years childhood
Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life. Plato
education ideas effort
In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort. Plato
education constitution nurture
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions. Plato
education mind may
And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst? Plato
education use argument
I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive. Plato
education school roots
Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it. Plato
education law youth
Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right. Plato
education plato believe
Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind. Plato
education young ifs
Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp Plato
education teaching men
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life. Plato
education children play
The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected. Plato
education real school
The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge. Plato
education perfection giving
The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable. Plato
education cities church
Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind . Philip Wylie
educational home groups
You are not the same person working alone as you are in a group; in a romantic setting versus an educational one; when you are with close friends or in an anonymous crowd; or when you are traveling abroad as when at home base. Philip Zimbardo
educational philosophy self
No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that person to be absolutely incompetent, assuming a posture of disdain from my own position of false superiority. Paulo Freire
educational philosophy teaching
There is, in fact, no teaching without learning. Paulo Freire
educational class would-be
It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically. Paulo Freire
educational learning creativity
Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world. Paulo Freire
education disappoint teaching-education
Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us. Leonardo da Vinci
education opportunity rights
I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society. Lech Walesa
education priceless
Fear is priceless education. Lance Armstrong
education home ends
I walked away to get wisdom, but in the end I just walked home. Lisa Loeb
education be-you
With all the things that you could be, you never could learn how to be me. Lisa Loeb
education hands inspire
You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands. John Updike
educational information stuff
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway. John Updike
education children father
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. John Updike
education learning years
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. John Updike
education pain learning
It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain. John Updike
education school parent
School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you. John Updike
education spiritual political
God was pitched out of forced schooling on his ear after WWII. This wasn't because of any constitutional proscription-there was none that anyone had been able to find in over a century and a half-but because the political state and corporate economy considered the Western spiritual tradition too dangerous a competitor. And it is. John Taylor Gatto
education children class
Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class structure in stone by dividing children into classes and setting them against one another; and has been midwife to an alarming concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a fraction of the national community. John Taylor Gatto
education teacher school
Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some other men to be instruments of the scientific management of a mass population. Schools are intended to produce through the application of formulae, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled. John Taylor Gatto