Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerome Bruner

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

Jerome Bruner

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

Jerome Bruner

Knowledge is justified belief.

Jerome Bruner

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

Jef Raskin

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

Jim Evans

I personally developed the Academy training program. All our training is based on solid educational principles. We present the material in four training formats: lecture, demonstration, drill, and implementation.

Jeff Bezos

We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and thy're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

Jeff Bezos

In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts

Jeff Bezos

The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.

George William Curtis

Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.

George Will

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

George Sand

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

Jean Paul

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

Eminem

Never was a gangsta, till I graduated to one.

Elvis Costello

If it wasn't for some acci-accidents, then some would never learn.

Hippocrates

First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place...

Hillary Clinton

Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.

Hillary Clinton

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.

Herbert Croly

The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

Herbert Hoover

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Evelyn Glennie

Scotland has never ceased to amaze the world with its forward vision, bold action and great educational institutions. Nothing makes me more proud than to promote this wonderful land with all its richness and diversity wherever I go.

Evelyn Waugh

I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

Evan Esar

A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher; a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins.

Evan Esar

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.

Evan Esar

Experience is a great teacher, and sometimes a pretty teacher is a great experience.

Evan Esar

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Ernst Haas

Learn by doing or even better unlearn by doing. The opposite of what you learned.

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.

Groucho Marx

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.

Harriet Harman

I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.