Quotes about education
education inspiration book
Man is what he reads. Joseph Brodsky
education reading book
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
education giving-up taken
Notable enough, however, are the controversies over the series 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ... whose sum was given by Leibniz as 1/2, although others disagree. ... Understanding of this question is to be sought in the word "sum"; this idea, if thus conceived - namely, the sum of a series is said to be that quantity to which it is brought closer as more terms of the series are taken - has relevance only for convergent series, and we should in general give up the idea of sum for divergent series. Leonhard Euler
education wise perfect
For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.
education book reading
... I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly to give me private lessons; but he gave me much more valuable advice to start reading more difficult mathematical books on my own and to study them as diligently as I could; if I came across some obstacle or difficulty, I was given permission to visit him freely every Sunday afternoon and he kindly explained to me everything I could not understand ...
education opportunity discovery
The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth; it is gained by induction, as we usually say. Yet we have seen cases in which mere induction led to error. Therefore, we should take great care not to accept as true such properties of the numbers which we have discovered by observation and which are supported by induction alone. Indeed, we should use such a discovery as an opportunity to investigate more exactly the properties discovered and to prove or disprove them; in both cases we may learn something useful.
education stupid pride
I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: "Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine? Leonardo da Vinci
education art doe
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
education rogues process
A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another. Oscar Wilde
education things-in-life body
We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself! Paul Prudhomme
educational people trying
There's all of this stuff where we have so much debate over nonsense; it could be cured if we had a better educational system, if we trained people to really try and look into things on their own. That's a tough thing to do, particularly with the educational system staggering. Paul R. Ehrlich
educational winning technology
If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win. LeVar Burton
education mother lying
Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
education enemy revolutionary
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies. Leon Trotsky
education destiny instruction
I consider that it is on instruction and education that the future security and direction of the destiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentally rests. Lajos Kossuth
education strong real
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap. Paul Chambers
education instructors
Nature is the best instructor. Paul Cezanne
education college college-education
When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less. Patricia Schroeder
education class squares
In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
education learning men
The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
education art real
Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.
education pain genius
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
education ignorance class
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
education care lovers
You didn't understand or care to know, you get your education from your lovers. Madonna Ciccone
education children giving
The great difficulty in education is that we give rules instead of inspiring sentiments. ... it is not possible to make rules enough to apply to all manner of cases; and if it were possible, a child would soon forget them. But if you inspire him with right feelings, they will govern his actions. Lydia M. Child
education growing-up laughter
I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying. Michael Jackson
education inspiration school
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
educational ideas taught
Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas. Michel de Montaigne
educational mind lessons
The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
education book giving
I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.
educational study profit
The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.
educational struggle mean
I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by too much water or lamps by too much oil; that our minds, held fast and encumbered by so many diverse preoccupations, may well lose the means of struggling free, remaining bowed and bent under the load; except that it is quite otherwise: the more our souls are filled, the more they expand; examples drawn from far-off times show, on the contrary, that great soldiers ad statesmen were also great scholars.
education teaching school
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.