Quotes about education
education real attention
The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies. Simone Weil
education order pearls
Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it. Simone Weil
educational cutting men
If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard. Simon Newcomb
educational positive-experiences share
How much do you as a consumer value a positive experience with a brand or its customer service department? How willing are you to share that with your friends? How inclined are you to let that person know that you're interaction with them was positive? Simon Mainwaring
educational expectations marketing
Setting customer expectations at a level that is aligned with consistently deliverable levels of customer service requires that your whole staff, from product development to marketing, works in harmony with your brand image. Richard Branson
education sensibility
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence. Remy de Gourmont
educational lying simple
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont
education office kind
Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate. Rem Koolhaas
educational technology impact
A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens. Tim Holden
education cities claims
In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece. Thucydides
education wise opportunity
Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that you ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education. Robert Andrews Millikan
education honest lawyer
It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors. Robert A. Heinlein
education teaching learning
When one teaches, two learn. Robert A. Heinlein
educational chance like-you
If you don't genuinely like your customers, chances are they won't buy. Thomas Watson
educational lying water
Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business. Thomas Watson
education teacher retirement
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. Thomas Szasz
educational government self
the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training. Thomas Jefferson
educational virginia people
The Petition of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Chapman Johnson, Joseph C. Cabell, James Breckenridge, John Hartwell Cocke, and Robert Taylor the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia ... Respectfully representeth ... That the value of science to a republican people, the security it... Thomas Jefferson
educational people enough
what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has been raised by them, and appropriated to this very object. it is that it should be employed understandingly, and for their greatest good. that good requires that, while they are... Thomas Jefferson
educational father reading
among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ... I think myself more indebted to my father for this, than for all the other luxuries his cares and affections have placed within my reach. Thomas Jefferson
educational citizens instruction
A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest. Thomas Jefferson
educational character four
this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at all by our legislature who meet within a week from this time. my hopes however are kept in check by the ordinary character of our state legislatures, the members... Thomas Jefferson
educational believe men
this interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to be the chief instrument in effecting it. Thomas Jefferson
educational may able
for the present we may groupe the sciences into Professorships as follows, subject however to be changed according to the qualifications of the persons we may be able to engage. Thomas Jefferson
education government wish
no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free & good government. Thomas Jefferson
educational men attention
I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man. Thomas Jefferson
educational boys men
the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them. Thomas Jefferson
educational spring character
in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses of lectures, and I hope you will have reason to be contended with his capacity & character. Thomas Jefferson
educational knowledge fields
the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind Thomas Jefferson
educational men law
the study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his neighbors, & to the public. Thomas Jefferson
educational book exercise
music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui. Thomas Jefferson
educational farmers
ours are the only farmers who can read Homer Thomas Jefferson
educational comfort
besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other. Thomas Jefferson