Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary McLeod Bethune

Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.

Martin Bormann

Every educated person is a future enemy.

Martin Buber

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

Pope John Paul II

The dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness are contrary to the order of creation. ...A given culture reveals its understanding of life through the choices it makes in production and consumption... a great deal of educational and cultural work is urgently needed, including the education of consumers in the responsible use of their power of choice...

Peter Medawar

It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools.

Quentin Bryce

Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.

Quintilian

Minds that are stupid and incapable of science are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary phenomena; minds of this sort are rare. Hence I conclude that there are great resources to be found in children, which are suffered to vanish with their years. It is evident, therefore, that it is not of nature, but of our own negligence, we ought to complain.

Preston Sturges

Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.

Polly Toynbee

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

Plutarch

If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.

Plutarch

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Plutarch

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

Phyllis Schlafly

In colleges, there are no gender separations in courses of study, and students can freely choose their majors. There are no male and female math classes. But women generally choose college courses that pay less in the labor market. Those are the choices that women themselves make. Those choices contribute to the pay gap...

Phyllis Schlafly

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.

Phillip E. Johnson

Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs.

Pope Benedict XVI

The examination of conscience has an important educational value. it teaches us to look sincerely at our own lives, to compare them with the truth of the Gospel and to evaluate them with parameters that are not only human but drawn from divine Revelation. Comparison with the Commandments, with the Beatitudes, and above all with the Precept to love, represents the first great 'school of penance

Naveen Jain

My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.

Victor Hugo

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Victor Hugo

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Richard Bach

If you don't want to be a teacher, you'd better get off this planet.

Richard Bach

Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.

Richard Bach

Learning is finding out what you already know.

Richard Bach

You teach best what you most need to learn.

Robert Frost

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

Robert Fulghum

All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess ...

Robert Frost

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Robert Frost

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

Robert Frost

I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.

Robert Bork

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.

Rene Descartes

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

Thomas More

They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.