Quotes about education
education teaching ignorance
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. Henry Adams
education teacher retirement
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.
education teacher learning
They know enough who know how to learn.
education witty powerful
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. Henry A. Kissinger
education laughter book
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings. Helen Hayes
educational issues political
Problems become privatized and removed from larger social issues. This is one task, connecting the personal problems to larger social issues that progressive leftist intellectuals have failed to take on as a major political and educational project. Henry Giroux
education teacher time
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz
education college progress
As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting a compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them. Henry David Thoreau
education writing men
What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?
education land wish
When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.
education school elements
The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?
education college thinking
I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.
education splits woods
Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.
education hate men
I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to the last codicil and letter. They rule this world, and the living are but their executors. Such foundation too have our lectures and our sermons, commonly.
education mark advantage
The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it. Malcolm Muggeridge
education mind united-states
Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.
educational believe media
The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and subtlety far exceeding anything of the kind achieved by the Inquisition; to the point that to believe today in a miraculous happening like the Virgin Birth is to appear a kind of imbecile....
education first-day-of-school educator
Education is our passport to the future. Malcolm X
education children teaching
A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.
education mean college
And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.
education reading long
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
education morning world
Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
education school college
Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government. Mahatma Gandhi
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.
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.
education and-love contemplation
The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.
education soul mind
A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.
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.
education children school
Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.
education spiritual mean
By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.
education men occupation
The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.
education literacy ends
Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.
education literacy
Literacy in itself is no education.