Quotes about education
education ignorance government
A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support. Thomas Paine
education dark mind
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
education country art
To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning around. Surely our innocent pleasures are not so abundant in this life, that we can afford to despise this or any other source of them. Thomas Huxley
education moving law
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but people and their ways; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws.
education country art
To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.
education teaching men
That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.
education law instruction
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.
education organization body
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
education teaching care
I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.
education learning responsibility
I have always been, am, and propose to remain a mere scholar. All that I have ever proposed to myself is to say, this and this I have learned; thus and thus have I learned it; go thou and learn better; but do not thrust on my shoulders the responsibility for your own laziness if you elect to take, on my authority, conclusions the value of which you ought to have tested for yourself.
education may impossible
Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.
education knowledge authority-and-power
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
education geometry blinded
She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry. Thomas Dolby
educational commitment economic-inequality
The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy. Timothy Geithner
education humorous learning
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Timothy Leary
educational school skills
Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop the skills and discipline required to produce a coherent analysis, based on logic and evidence. The implications of having so many people so incapable of confronting opposing arguments with anything besides ad hominem responses reach far... Thomas Sowell
education self-esteem school
Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.
education empty professors
Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.
educational school thinking
Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.
educational school america
My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School. Thomas Peterffy
educational garden littles
The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows. Vita Sackville-West
education humble illiterate-person
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. Walt Whitman
education laughter inspiration
I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
education passion men
I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try the truth of any observation relating to the mind, the easiest method is to illustrate it by outward objects. If, for instance, a man was to sweat and labor all the days of his life to fill a chest which was already full, the absurdity of his vain endeavor would be glaring. In the same manner, when the human mind is filled and stuffed with notions brought thither by fallacious inclinations, there is no room for truth to enter: candor being banished, passions alone bear the sway. Sarah Fielding
education taken names
Little miss is taught by her mamma that she must never speak before she is spoken to. On this she sits bridling up her head, looking from one to the other, in hopes of being called to and addressed by the name of pretty miss.... But if this should not happen and no one should take any notice of her, she is ready to cry at the neglect. But should there be another miss in the room caressed and taken notice of whilst she is thus overlooked, it will be impossible for her to contain her tears, and blubbering is the word.
education self vanity
Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.
education mean priorities
We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it. Roger Scruton
education children home
Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents. Roger Moore
education teacher hurt
When we grew up and went to school There were certain teachers who would Hurt the children anyway they could By pouring their derision Upon anything we did And exposing every weakness However carefully hidden by the kids Roger Waters
education people effort
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity. Robert Trout
education football years
Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated. Robert M. Hutchins
education school democratic-ideals
It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.
education america six
It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.