Quotes about education
education running mistake
No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me--has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has any one ever lost public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is folly. They dislike ideas, for ideas make them uncomfortable. H. L. Mencken
education men intelligent
The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.
education school night
At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.
education america individual
Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society. Gunnar Myrdal
education running wall
Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise. Grace Hopper
education way phrases
The most damaging phrase in the language is: `It's always been done that way.'
education philosophy believe
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. Grace Paley
educational struggle men
....Man's struggle to be rational about himself, about his relationship to his own society and to other peoples and nations involves a constant search for understanding among all peoples and all cultures-a search that can only be effective when learning is pursued on a worldwide basis. J. William Fulbright
educational pride sacrifice
It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own needs and aspirations, most of the citizens of big counties-those, that is, that have the status of being "powers" in the world-far from being self-centered or materialistic as they are commonly credited with being, the ordinary citizen and his elected representative all too often turn out to be romantics, ready and eager to sacrifice programs of health, education and welfare for the power and pride of the nation....
educational land america
There is nothing obscure about the objectives of educational exchange. Its purpose is to acquaint Americans with the world as it is and to acquaint students and scholars from many lands with America as it is-not as we wish it were or as we might wish foreigners to see it, but exactly as it is-which by my reckoning is an "image" of which no American need be ashamed.
education opposites dignity
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. Georg C. Lichtenberg
education art asking-questions
In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems. Georg Cantor
education men thinking
Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.
education teacher teaching
Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
educational ecosystems what-matters
It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value. Gary Hamel
education loneliness culture
The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness. Friedrich Nietzsche
education mother teach
I question whether we can afford to teach mother macramé when Johnny still can't read. Jerry Brown
education self giving
The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
educational people intellectual
It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. Ian Mcewan
educational reading writing
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people. Hugh Mackay
education school character
Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be any police so vigilant and effetive, for the protections of all the rights of person, property and character, as such a sound and comprehensive education and training, as our system of Common Schools could be made to impart; and would not the payment of a sufficient tax to make such education and training universal, be the cheapest means of self-protection and insurance? Horace Mann
education mother children
When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?
education science humans
Education is an organic necessity of a human being.
education people giving
The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.
education lines republican
Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
education men rich
Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.
education children practice
Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.
education school spurs
When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.
education apples educated
As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.
education men balance
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
education quality infinite
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
education safety political
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
education people want
Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .