Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plato

I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

Plato

Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.

Plato

Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.

Plato

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

Plato

Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

Plato

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Plato

The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.

Plato

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

Plato

The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

Philip Wylie

Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind .

Philip Zimbardo

You are not the same person working alone as you are in a group; in a romantic setting versus an educational one; when you are with close friends or in an anonymous crowd; or when you are traveling abroad as when at home base.

Paulo Freire

No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that person to be absolutely incompetent, assuming a posture of disdain from my own position of false superiority.

Paulo Freire

There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

Paulo Freire

It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.

Paulo Freire

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

Leonardo da Vinci

Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us.

Lech Walesa

I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.

Philip Sidney

It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.

Philip Sidney

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

Philip Guston

Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make some kind of jump or leap, where , the painting is always saying, 'What do you want from me? I can only be a painting.' You have to go from part to part, but you shouldn't see yourself go from part to part, that's the whole point.

Peter Drucker

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

Peter Drucker

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.

Peter Drucker

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Peter Drucker

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

Peter Drucker

Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.

Marjane Satrapi

It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.

Meat Loaf

What about your school? It's defective, it's a pack of useless lies.

Meat Loaf

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

Matthew Simpson

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

Matthew Lesko

Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs.

Maynard James Keenan

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

Maya Angelou

We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.

Maya Angelou

Education is a process that goes on 'til death. The moment you see someone who knows she has found the one true way, and can call all the others false, then you know you're in the company of an ignoramus.