Quotes about education
educational views hands
Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only one end in view: to show it off, to put into our accounts to entertain others with it, as though it were merely counters, useful for totting up and producing statements, but having no other use or currency. 'Apud alios loqui didicerunt, non ipsi secum' [They have learned how to talk with others, not with themselves] Michel de Montaigne
educational men judging
And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
educational often-is want
Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]
educational soul enough
Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles.
educational choices soul
For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.
educational lodges
Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
educational mean men
'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
education teaching teach
I do not teach. I relate.
education memories understanding
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
educational law discipline
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
education men differences
I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.
education children freedom
Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.
education self littles
In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.
education art teaching
Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.
education weakness world
Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
education art lessons
Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art... Michael Kimmelman
education art lying
Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable. Mark Twain
education records i-can
The most that I can learn is in records that you burn. Marilyn Manson
educational
It's not what you say, but how you say it! Mae West
educational opportunity childhood
CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY Michael K. Williams
education educated
The educated can listen impassively to almost anything. Mason Cooley
education boots university
I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots. Mary Augusta Ward
education art grief
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. Mem Fox
education realizing inspirational-learning
"The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know" Michel Legrand
educational mean political
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. Michel Foucault
education bulls taurus
In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.] Ovid
education art men
To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.
education teacher mind
Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.
education children years
When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion. So that makes me two and a half billion. Paul Erdos
education school thinking
I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness. Mary Wollstonecraft
education accomplishment understanding
... in the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment ...
education heart independent
The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.
education men degrees
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.