Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Samuel Johnson

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Samuel Johnson

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Samuel Johnson

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Samuel Johnson

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Sam Cooke

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.

Ronald Reagan

Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children the values and the virtues handed down to us by our families, to have the courage to defend those values and the willingess to sacrifice for them. Let us pledge to restore, in our time, the American spirit of voluntary service, of cooperation, of private and community initiative, a spirit that flows like a deep and mighty river through the history of our nation.

Ronald Reagan

A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow.

Robertson Davies

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I'd like to say a few words about one of the most popular concepts in the modern education--show and tell. Show and Tell is a device created by grammar schools to communicate family secrets to 32 other families before 9:15 am in the morning.

William Howard Taft

It is fitting that the Government of the United States should assume the obligation of the establishment and maintenance of a first-class university for the education of colored menand I wish to put in this caveatthat the colored race today, all of them, would be better off if they all had university education.... Of course, the basis of education of the colored people is in the primary schools and in industrial schools.... In those schools must be introduced teachers from such university institutions as this.

Vincent Van Gogh

It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.

Vincent Van Gogh

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

Vladimir Lenin

Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.

Will McDonough

I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.

Walter Annenberg

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

Virginia Woolf

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

William Bennett

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

William Bennett

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools

William Blake

I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. Black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel works Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden, which Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve, in harmony & peace.

Wentworth Miller

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.

Walker Percy

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

Samuel Richardson

An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.

Samuel Foote

For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent.

Samuel Dash

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

Samuel Butler

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

Salma Hayek

If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.

Ryan White

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

Rudolf Steiner

It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives

Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.

Virginia Gildersleeve

For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought?

William Cobbett

It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.

William Cowper

A teacher should be sparing of his smile.