Quotes about education
education knowledge world
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Lord Chesterfield
educational laughing students
Students who laugh more- learn more. Students who laugh more earn more. John Cleese
education mind kind
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education. John Buchan
education field funding playing talk until
You couldn't really talk about anything else in education funding until you got the playing field leveled.
education lying science
But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our business class ... In nothing do England and the Continent at the present moment more strikingly differ than in the prominence which is now given to the idea of science there, and the neglect in which this idea still lies here; a neglect so great that we hardly even know the use of the word science in its strict sense, and only employ it in a secondary and incorrect sense. Matthew Arnold
education ignorance science
The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature is the study of the operation of non-human forces, of human limitation and passivity. The contemplation of human force and activity tends naturally to heighten our own force and activity; the contemplation of human limits and passivity tends rather to check it. Therefore the men who have had the humanistic training have played, and yet play, so prominent a part in human affairs, in spite of their prodigious ignorance of the universe.
education country fall
Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries. Meg Whitman
education strange helping
Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations. Maya Angelou
education powerful men
Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak, who lacked it, and the educated man counted in his circle, however large or small it was, as the mighty, the powerful, the imposing one: for he was an authority. Max Stirner
education impossible reason
Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless. Max Born
education real asking-questions
The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions. Max Beerbohm
education media people
They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people. Matthew Modine
educational book understanding
The model of the educational Kalila Wa-Dimna. These are books of instruction to rulers and humans. The stories unfold a range of human psychology, a vast range of human psychology. The Sultan is being moved from his narrow and bigoted position into a wider, more subtle, more nuanced understanding of human experiences. Marina Warner
education tired science
There was some sort of maze-learning experiment involved in my final grade and since I remember the rat who was my colleague as uncooperative, or perhaps merely incompetent at being a rat, or tired of the whole thing, I don't remember how I passed. Marilynne Robinson
education personality use
The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize that the cornerstone of education is the development of the human personality, and that in this regard education is of immediate importance for the salvation of mankind. Maria Montessori
educational practice ideas
Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.
education greatness personality
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.
educational thinking talking
When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the mind.' And when we think of intellectual activity, we always imagine people sitting still, motionless. But mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.
education teacher teaching
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
education tasks arbitrary
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
education teacher children
The children are now working as if I did not exist.
education children able
Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.
education path should
Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.
education children tests
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
education children parenting
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
education good
I'm getting some education here and good coaching. I'm around some good athletes.
education learning something-you-love
You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love. Julia Child
education gave house wisdom woman
This was the wisdom of a woman with little education. It gave me carte blanche in a house with no books.
education children art-and-music
The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music. Gerald R. Ford
educational envy important
There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world. Jim Jeffords
education students helping
Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest. Jiddu Krishnamurti
education children examination
Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
educational parenting inquiry
When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.