Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Anthony Froude

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

Henry Anatole Grunwald

Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic? The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter.

Henry Adams

All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.

Henry Adams

Education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard, but by choice, on the lines of force that attract their world. What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

Henry Adams

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Adams

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

Henry Adams

They know enough who know how to learn.

Henry A. Kissinger

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

John Milton

A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war.

Norman Douglas

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Cousins

Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of our unique estate in the cosmos. Little wonder that it becomes so easy for our young to regard human hurt casually or to be uninspired by the magic of sensitivity.

Norman Cousins

It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.

Miguel de Cervantes

Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

(Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones that make tomorrow come. The foundations of economies... issue forth from investments we make in science and technology.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Too many people view on [space exploration] as a luxury rather than as a fundamental driver to stimulate interest in science to everyone in the educational pipeline. It's vital to our prosperity and security.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth might end on December 21, 2012. It's a profound absence of awareness of the laws of physics and how nature works. So they're missing some science classes in their training in high school or in college that would empower them to understand and to judge when someone else is basically just full of it. Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.

John Naisbitt

The economic borderlines of our world will not be drawn between countries, but around Economic Domains. Along the twin paths of globalization and decentralization, the economic pieces of the future are being assembled in a new way. Not what is produced by a country or in a country will be of importance, but the production within global Economic Domains, measured as Gross Domain Products. The global market demands a global sharing of talent. The consequence is Mass Customization of Talent and education as the number one economic priority for all countries

John W. Gardner

Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

John W. Gardner

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

John W. Gardner

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

John W. Gardner

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

John W. Gardner

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

John Tesh

If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City.

John Tillotson

How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they would fall into an exact poem, yea, or so much as make a good discourse in prose? And may not a little book be as easily made by chance as this great volume of the world?

John Sterling

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

John Spratt

Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Friedrich Schiller

Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.

Friedrich Schiller

Freedom can occur only through education.

Frederick the Great

An educated people can be easily governed.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.

Jon Anderson

Tell me I'm a fool. I would not know how to believe it.