Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerald R. Ford

The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

Jim Jeffords

There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.

Jessamyn West

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

Frank Zappa

My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu.

Frank Zappa

My school spirit is at an all time low, I'm losing my status at the school.

Frank Zappa

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Fred Rogers

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It's not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Marguerite Yourcenar

The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap between the sheer weight of the textbooks that he carries home from school and his capacity to interpret what is in them.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.

Neil Armstrong

Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.

Mitt Romney

Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.

R. Kelly

I went from a D all the way to an A plus, I tell you prayer changes things.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.

R. Buckminster Fuller

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

R. Buckminster Fuller

If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

Nelson Mandela

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.

Jean Rostand

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.