Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Santayana

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

George Santayana

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

George Santayana

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

George Santayana

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

George Orwell

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

George Orwell

Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past." "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

G. M. Trevelyan

Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

G. M. Trevelyan

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. H. Hardy

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The doer alone learneth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

Franz Grillparzer

Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

Jerome Bruner

I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms as there are individuals, each of whom develops his own image of excellence. The school must have as one of its principal functions the nurturing of images of excellence.

Jerome Bruner

Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the past so that one may use it in experiencing the present and aspiring to the future--all of these, it would seem reasonable to suppose, are essential to an educated man. To these must be added another--knowledge of the products of our artistic heritage that mark the history of our esthetic wonder and delight.

Jerome Bruner

Rather, the master question from which the mission of education research is derived: What should be taught to whom, and with what pedagogical object in mind? That master question is threefold: what, to whom, and how? Education research, under such a dispensation, becomes an adjunct of educational planning and design. It becomes design research in the sense that it explores possible ways in which educational objectives can be formulated and carried out in the light of cultural objectives and values in the broad.

Jerome Bruner

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

Jerome Bruner

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

Jerome Bruner

Knowledge is justified belief.

Jerome Bruner

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

Jef Raskin

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

George Eliot

Those who trust us educate us.

Geoffrey Canada

There is an educational cliff we are walking over right this very second.

Geoffrey Canada

Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching the same way then that we're doing right now?

Gary Player

The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.

Frank Knight

Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

Frank Shorter

It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

Chris Hedges

We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.

Christine Gregoire

Truly, the challenges we face are not Democratic challenges or Republican challenges. In fact, they are not political challenges at all; they are fiscal challenges, and educational challenges, and the challenges of figuring out how to take care of each other.

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

George W. Bush

Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness.