Quotes about education
education country progress
All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given. Mahatma Gandhi
education giving people
In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop. Mahatma Gandhi
education and-love contemplation
The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities. Mahatma Gandhi
education soul mind
A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul. Mahatma Gandhi
education country people
The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom. Mahatma Gandhi
education children school
Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children. Mahatma Gandhi
education spiritual mean
By spiritual training I mean education of the heart. Mahatma Gandhi
education men occupation
The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man. Mahatma Gandhi
education literacy ends
Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning. Mahatma Gandhi
education literacy
Literacy in itself is no education. Mahatma Gandhi
education art children
Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training? Mahatma Gandhi
education understanding honest
Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest. Mahatma Gandhi
educational real character
The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities. Mahatma Gandhi
education wise knowledge
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.' John Abbott
education men differences
Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute. John Adams
education school squares
The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves. John Adams
education mother children
In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years . . . . The Vices and Examples of the Parents cannot be concealed from the Children. How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers. John Adams
education writing earthquakes
A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake. John Adams
education money memorable
But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of Society nearer to the higher. The Education of a Nation, instead of being confined to a few schools & Universities, for the instruction of the few, must become the National Care and expence, for the information of the Many. John Adams
education
Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing. John Adams
education wise learning
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant. John Adams
education war taken
The consequences of these institutions (The towns or districts, the congregations, the schools,and the militia.) have been, that the inhabitants, having acquired from their infancy the habit of discussing, of deliberating, and of judging of public affairs, it was in these assemblies of towns or districts that the sentiments of the people were formed in the first place, and their resolutions were taken from the beginning to the end of the disputes and the war with Great Britain. John Adams
education freedom knowledge
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. John Adams
education inspirational-life men
You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen. John Adams
education children distance
The education here intended in not merely that of the children of the rich and noble, but of every rank and class of people, down to the lowest and the poorest. It is not too much to say that schools for the education of all should be placed at convenient distances, and maintained at the public expense. John Adams
education wisdom reading
I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading. John Adams
education mind superstitions
Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. John Adams
education character mean
And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as their great Creator who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings and a desire to know. But besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible divine right to the most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers. John Adams
education philosophy war
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. John Adams
educational organization offering
What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros. Jack Welch
educational defeat individualism
Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. Harvey Cushing
educational world care
There's a place in the world for any business that takes care of its customers-after the sale. Harvey Mackay
education forgot home learn pushes remember stuff supposed time took
And how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive? Dan Castellaneta