Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilyn Manson

The most that I can learn is in records that you burn.

Mae West

It's not what you say, but how you say it!

Michael K. Williams

CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY

Mason Cooley

The educated can listen impassively to almost anything.

Mary Augusta Ward

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

Mem Fox

I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.

Michel Legrand

"The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know"

Michel Foucault

Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of discourse. But we well know that in its distribution, in what it permits and in what it prevents, it follows the well-trodden battle-lines of social conflict. Every educational system is a political means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of discourse, with the knowledge and the powers it carries with it.

Marie Corelli

Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!

Marie Curie

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

Mark Zuckerberg

We are so fortunate that our work in connecting the world through Facebook has given us the ability to give back to our local community, our country and the world -- and to work to improve education, health care and internet access for everyone, to serve our community in San Francisco, we can think of no better place to focus than The General.

Theodore Parker

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

Terry Leahy

Follow the customer, if they change, we change.

Margaret Mead

The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average teachers approximate the performance of good teachers.

Margaret Mead

I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way that I devoutly believed in but could not explain, I expected to become a person.

Margaret Mead

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Margaret Halsey

If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means -- from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.

Margaret Fuller

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

Kin Hubbard

University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.

Michelle Alexander

Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service - are suddenly legal. As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights, and largely less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Michelangelo

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

By measuring things simply on a standardized test, you're never going to get a full picture of education in Florida. There's more individual attention.

Implementation of ADP projects in some sectors, particularly in education sector is very sluggish. We are planning to use the money to some social development projects.

If I were IBM, I'd understand it. I'm not IBM. I represent 14 educational institutions.

Casey Affleck

I had a public school education - 3,000 kids when I was there. And there were a lot of teachers who would just sit there. You'd come in and sign your name and the teacher would just sit there at the head of the class and you would literally just have to stay in your seat for 40 minutes and that was the only thing you'd have to do in class.

Morgan Freeman

I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.

Margaret Spellings

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

Margaret Spellings

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

Margaret Spellings

Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.

Lance Armstrong

Fear is priceless education.

Lisa Loeb

I walked away to get wisdom, but in the end I just walked home.

Lisa Loeb

With all the things that you could be, you never could learn how to be me.