Quotes about education
education thinking sheep
Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.
education purpose daily-life
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
education book answers
They read all the books, but they can't find the answers. John Mayer
education running real
I wanna run through the halls of my high school, I wanna scream at the top of my lungs. I just found out there's no such thing as the real world, just a lie you've got to rise above.
education economics indifferent
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. John Maynard Keynes
education laughter inspiration
Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
education lying escaping
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
education wise men
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. John Lubbock
education school learning
Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.
education teacher nature
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
education appreciation teacher
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
education knowledge two
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. John Locke
education truth philosophical
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
education wisdom philosophical
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
education careers years
When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years, then they expect you to pick a career. John Lennon
education clever hate
They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.
educational self incentives
Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity. John Lancaster Spalding
education ignorance taught
Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me. Jimmy Buffett
education mind bones
While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.
education college trying
They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.
education vaccines dumb
There's no 'dumb-ass' vaccine.
education order people
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly. Julie Andrews
educational self people
I am not pushy. You want it, you buy it. Most people hit the customer over the head. But if you're too self-important, it's kind of repellent. Judith Leiber
education taken hands
Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars. At present the whole University system is rotten to the core, and an appalling waste of time, energy and money ... Katherine Anne Porter
education competition levels
Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete. Joyce Meyer
education causes weakness
It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity. Joseph de Maistre
educational heart age
The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome. Kate Mosse
education space mines
This mental space is occupied and everything is mine. Leonard Cohen
educational discovery understanding
Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops. John Katzman
education degrees arthur
My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr. John Kenneth Galbraith
educational sea people
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.
education ignorance dark
Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance. Joy Page
education peace technology
Our obsession is how we can use technology to reach our big goals, first peace, which will allow us more equality and better education. Juan Manuel Marquez