Quotes about education
education giving persons
It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work. John Ruskin
education school soul
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
education meaningful able
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
education children likes-and-dislikes
The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
education mean government
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
education teaching mean
Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.
education school diversity
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
education justice hunger-and-thirst
The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.
education lying science
But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our business class ... In nothing do England and the Continent at the present moment more strikingly differ than in the prominence which is now given to the idea of science there, and the neglect in which this idea still lies here; a neglect so great that we hardly even know the use of the word science in its strict sense, and only employ it in a secondary and incorrect sense. Matthew Arnold
education country fall
Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries. Meg Whitman
education strange helping
Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations. Maya Angelou
education powerful men
Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak, who lacked it, and the educated man counted in his circle, however large or small it was, as the mighty, the powerful, the imposing one: for he was an authority. Max Stirner
education impossible reason
Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless. Max Born
education real asking-questions
The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions. Max Beerbohm
education media people
They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people. Matthew Modine
educational book understanding
The model of the educational Kalila Wa-Dimna. These are books of instruction to rulers and humans. The stories unfold a range of human psychology, a vast range of human psychology. The Sultan is being moved from his narrow and bigoted position into a wider, more subtle, more nuanced understanding of human experiences. Marina Warner
education personality use
The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize that the cornerstone of education is the development of the human personality, and that in this regard education is of immediate importance for the salvation of mankind. Maria Montessori
educational practice ideas
Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.
education greatness personality
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.
educational thinking talking
When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the mind.' And when we think of intellectual activity, we always imagine people sitting still, motionless. But mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.
education teacher teaching
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
education tasks arbitrary
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
education teacher children
The children are now working as if I did not exist.
education children able
Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.
education path should
Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.
education children tests
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
education children parenting
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
education window bigs
It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening. Mary Webb
educational practice role-models
The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing. Patricia Hill Collins
education years childhood
Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life. Plato
education ideas effort
In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.
education constitution nurture
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
education mind may
And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?