Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

Kinky Friedman

The reason educational spending in Texas is so low is because you don't have a state tax there, and that's why Texas is big growth because you don't tax people to death.

Kid Rock

I pissed on my diploma, smell the aroma.

Kenny Smith

One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House of Intellect and its Hegelian/Bergsonian contrast between rigidified "intellect" and always-growing "intelligence." This fundamentally Hegelian distinction, needless to say, cuts to the quick of the contrast between Platonic and Aristotelian forms of philosophy.

Kenny Smith

The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of gnosis; but in academia there is virtually nothing but noetic minds to be found, and the very idea of gnosis is alien and untranslatable, not to mention discreditable.

Ken Robinson

Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems

Ken Robinson

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

Ken Robinson

We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

Ken Robinson

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

Ken Robinson

Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.

Ken Robinson

"Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves"

Ken Robinson

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

Kathy Ireland

I've learned so many things and a lot of things I've learned the hard way. I look at failure as education in that respect I'm very well educated.

Mark Twain

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

Mark Twain

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

Mark Twain

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

Mark Twain

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

Mark Twain

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Mark Twain

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Mark Twain

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

Mark Twain

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Mark Twain

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Leonardo da Vinci

I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: "Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?

Leonardo da Vinci

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Oscar Wilde

A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

Paul Prudhomme

We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!

Paul R. Ehrlich

There's all of this stuff where we have so much debate over nonsense; it could be cured if we had a better educational system, if we trained people to really try and look into things on their own. That's a tough thing to do, particularly with the educational system staggering.

LeVar Burton

If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial.

Leon Trotsky

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Lajos Kossuth

I consider that it is on instruction and education that the future security and direction of the destiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentally rests.

Paul Chambers

Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.