Quotes about education
education misled has-beens
By education most have been misled. John Dryden
education son common-sense
To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.
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 students prudence
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
education truth school
The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side.
education learning study
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
educational philosophy believe
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
educational one-love
One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.
education teacher character
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world’s torrent.
education too-much useless
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
education accomplishment aptitude
Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
education people treats
If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.
education hate activity
I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.
education knowledge doubt
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
education children insanity
Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
education mistake learning
By seeking and blundering we learn.
education art ideas
The fine arts, both in those who cultivate and those only who admire them, open and expand the mind to great ideas. They inspire liberal feelings, create a harmony of temper, favorable to a sense of justice and a habit of moderation in our social intercourse. Joel Barlow