Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Jefferson

preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.

Thomas Jefferson

I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics.

Thomas Jefferson

life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health.

Thomas Jefferson

with respect to the distribution of your time the following is what I should approve. from 8. to 10 o'clock practise music. from 10. to 1. dance one day & draw another. from 1. to 2. draw on the day you dance, and write a letter next day. from 3. to 4. read French. from 4. to 5. exercise...

Thomas Jefferson

Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind

Thomas Jefferson

Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old dull scoundrel in my life ... But the old-fellows say we must read to gain knowledge; and gain knowledge to make us happy and be admired. Mere jargon! Is there any such thing as happiness in this world? No...

Seymour Papert

Corporate America needs to get its act together to see that the education system is changed so it produces what it needs. The educational system that teaches kids to be passive recipients of knowledge worked when most workers were sitting in assembly lines.

Seymour Papert

Now more people are doing work that requires individual decision-making and problem-solving, and we need an educational system that will help develop those skills.

Seymour Papert

There's a tendency to make jazzy educational software that's very uniform and therefore just like school. I'd like to see a company develop software for rebellious kids who don't want to go to school.

Lady Gregory

There's more learning than is taught in books.

Neil Postman

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

Marco Rubio

I believe that there are barriers, educational barriers, cultural barriers, societal barriers, that are keeping people from accessing the promise of a vibrant free enterprise economy.

Marco Rubio

Our higher education system is controlled by what amounts to a cartel of existing colleges and universities, which use their power over the accreditation process to block innovative, low-cost competitors from entering the market.

Marco Rubio

I'm all for reforming our higher education system, in the 21st century, to have the skills you need for a middle-class job, you need higher education of some form or fashion. It may not be a four-year degree. The problem is he just wants to pour that additional money into the broken, existing system.

Marc Jacobs

But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.

Thomas A. Edison

I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.

Thomas A. Edison

Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.

Thomas A. Edison

Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

Thomas A. Edison

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are wiser than we know.

Shirley Hufstedler

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

Shirley Temple

The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.

Shawn Colvin

The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.

Shawn Achor

[It's] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.

Shakira

There is no other investment that has the kind of social multiplier effect that early education has. It is an incredible thing to nurture and watch grow and spread.

Shakti Gawain

Our "life education" has not necessarily taught us a satisfying way to live. We suffer from a vague sense that there must be something more, some deeper meaning. We must return to kindergarten and start to learn a way of life that is contrary to the way we approached things before-a way of life based on trust of our own inner truth. We can rediscover the child-like innocence and wisdom that knows that anything is possible.

Stevie Wonder

Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.

Steven Anderson

Alone we are smart. Together we are brilliant.

Sun Tzu

All battles are won before they start.

Robert Browning

There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!