Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Cezanne

Nature is the best instructor.

Patricia Schroeder

When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.

Oscar Wilde

In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

Peter Falk

For some reason, his pool-hall education gets far more ink than his master's degree. And most important, he's part of a hardworking showbiz tradition that doesn't make films, it makes ''pictures.

Ivan Illich

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

Ivan Illich

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Ivan Illich

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

Ishmael Reed

I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of deathamong Americans. What you don't know can indeed hurt you, and so those who can neither read nor write lead miserable lives, like Richard Wright's character, Bigger Thomas, born dead with no past or future.

Ishmael Reed

The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.

Ishmael Reed

American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that welearn about one another's cultures the same way we learn about sex: in the streets.

Idries Shah

There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.

Hyman Rickover

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

Gloria Steinem

We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.

Harry S Truman

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

J. P. Morgan

You can't unscramble eggs.

J. K. Rowling

You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail.

Natalia Ginzburg

As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.

Munshi Premchand

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

Julia Ward Howe

Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.

Julia Ward Howe

The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead.

Ken Dodd

My act is very educational. I heard a man leaving the other night saying, 'Well that taught me a lesson.'

There's a real feeling of recognition that there's an education that has to go on with investors.

At a time when they can't properly fund education . . . now is not the time you start trying to figure out how to take money away from those institutions the state has the largest responsibility towards.

Jim Rogers

As we go forward, the student or the private sector will have to pay more and more of the higher education burden.

W. S. Gilbert

As you get a little older, you see the world a little differently and you realize that education is really the thing that can solve a lot of our problems.

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Ray Bradbury

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

Randy Newman

College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.

Randy Pausch

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

Ralph Bunche

Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.

Septima Poinsette Clark

What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners who are leading the fight for justice and better race relations in these crucial days

Michelle Obama

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

Seth Godin

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