Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicolaus Copernicus

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Montel Williams

There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.

John Ruskin

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

John Ruskin

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

John Ruskin

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

John Ruskin

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

John Ruskin

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

John Ruskin

Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.

The group was formed to provide fellowship, fun and education.

Al Gore

The improvement in education should not be limited to technical related fields, as it should extends to include other systems of knowledge.

These are good schools, you can get a good education here.

Ralph Brown

These immigrants often don't speak English well and don't have much education, but they're physically capable. It's the first step in the ladder to the American dream.

Vint Cerf

This is mostly a highlighting and warning and education project.

This is a great day in Merced and a great day in higher education,

All education is, in a sense, vocational, vocational for living

Eric Hoffer

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

Mortimer Adler

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.

Paulo Freire

Only through communication can human life hold meaning.

Paulo Freire

It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for the identities that are in the process of construction, without taking into consideration the conditions in which they are living and the importance of the knowledge derived from life experience, which they bring with them to school. I can in no way underestimate such knowledge. Or what is worse, ridicule it.

Paulo Freire

No reality transforms itself.

Paulo Freire

Love is an act of courage.

Paulo Freire

The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.'

Paulo Freire

One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming.

Paulo Freire

Indeed, some "revolutionaries" brand as "innocents," "dreamers," or even "reactionaries"; those who would challenge this educational practice. But one does not liberate people by alienating them. Authentic liberation - the process of humanization - is not another deposit to be made in men.

Paulo Freire

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

Philip Sidney

It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.

Philip Sidney

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

Philip Guston

Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make some kind of jump or leap, where , the painting is always saying, 'What do you want from me? I can only be a painting.' You have to go from part to part, but you shouldn't see yourself go from part to part, that's the whole point.

Peter Drucker

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

Peter Drucker

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.

Peter Drucker

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Peter Drucker

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

Peter Drucker

Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.