Quotes about education
education book beer
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. Woody Allen
education school boys
I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw]. William Merritt Chase
education struggle kids
In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever. William J. Clinton
educational creativity responsibility
Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.
educational views ideas
To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions, or distinctions, or points of view. But while these special ideas are being added, the rest of your knowledge stands still, and only gradually will you line up your previous opinions with the novelties I am trying to instill, and to modify to some slight degree their mass. ..Your mind in such processes is strained, and sometimes painfully so, between its older beliefs and the novelties which experience brings along. William James
educational philosophy men
The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes connected with the fortunes of the self, it forthwith becomes an interesting thing.
educational philosophy emotional
An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.
educational philosophy literature
It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
educational philosophy science
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.
educational philosophy men
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life
educational philosophy ideas
If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when you begin to talk. That something can consist in nothing but a previous lot of ideas already interesting in themselves, and of such a nature that the incoming novel objects which you present can dovetail into them and form with them some kind of a logically associated or systematic whole.
educational philosophy thinking
Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.
educational philosophy ideas
Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively.
educational philosophy ideas
Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness.
educational philosophy order
In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at one age, and other kinds of conception at a later age.
educational philosophy interesting
All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less the kind of attention requiring effort is appealed to; the more smoothly and pleasantly the classroom work goes on.
education teacher important
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
educational philosophy feelings
There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life.
education philosophical carpe-diem
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
educational philosophy book
Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.
education enemy allies
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
education men woe
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn. Will Durant
education knowledge eye
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
education civilization transmission
Education is the transmission of civilization.
education boston names
I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. William F. Buckley, Jr.
education mean exercise
Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having. Ronald Reagan
education children america
If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer.
education responsibility home
Our leaders must remember that education doesn't begin with some isolated bureaucrat in Washington. It doesn't even begin with state or local officials. Education begins in the home, where it is a parental right and responsibility.
educational school government
We developed at the local school district level probably the best public school system in the world. Or it was until the Federal government added Federal interference to Federal financial aid and eroded educational quality in the process.
educational men shining
The learned man's life itself shines as the message for mankind. Sai Baba
educational love-is today
The cultivation of Love is the greatest need today.
educational self-confidence awards
Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one's own strength.
educational goal sake
Not living for food, but living for the sake of an ideal, that is the goal of education