Quotes about education
education weakness world
Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical. Michel de Montaigne
education art lessons
Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art... Michael Kimmelman
education art lying
Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable. Mark Twain
educational institutions educated
I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person. Mikhail Bulgakov
education children life-lesson
It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone. Marian Wright Edelman
education america survival
Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
education community leaving
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
education real fiction
Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction. Martin Luther King, Jr.
education mother children
The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.
education baby money
It's not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.
educational hands battle
For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.
education wisdom lying
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
education character goal
We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.
education school character
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
education teacher character
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
education children school
The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap between the sheer weight of the textbooks that he carries home from school and his capacity to interpret what is in them. Marguerite Yourcenar
education money reality
Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons. Nicholas D. Kristof
education laughter inspiration
Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation. Neil Armstrong
education our-generation generations
Education is the investment our generation makes in the future. Mitt Romney
education prayer way
I went from a D all the way to an A plus, I tell you prayer changes things. R. Kelly
education strong men
Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process. R. Buckminster Fuller
education lost-love divorce
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
education mistake school
If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.
education fear children
We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear. Nelson Mandela
education reading ideas
You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities. Oprah Winfrey
education book reading
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
education school kids
So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain. Olivia Wilde
education republic youth
"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?" Marcus Tullius Cicero
education teacher ignorance
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
education republic youth
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]
education teacher letters
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
education knowledge knowing-who-you-are
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
education teacher teaching
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?