Quotes about education
education learning ideas
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. Robert M. Hutchins
education teacher facts
Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.
education would-be looks
When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.
education teacher powerful
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
education-for-all best-education
The best education for the best is the best education for all.
education thinking mind
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.
education racism racist
Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education. Sargent Shriver
education needs caste-system
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
educational thinking goal
I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system.
education college wind
As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.
educational school thinking
I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs.
educational parent tests
THE BIGGEST TEST FOR PARENTS IS NOT HOW THEY PARENT, BUT HOW THEY RESPOND TO DISORDER AND UNPREDICTABILITY Sarah Newton
educational years class
Ive been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what weve done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution. Sanford I. Weill
education peace truth
Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less. Samuel Johnson
education strong quilts
When first the college rolls receive his name, The young enthusiast quilts his ease for fame; Through all his veins the fever of renown Burns from the strong contagion of the gown
education differences people
It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.
education book boys
I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention; because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards.
education children mean
It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned them both.
education memories school
There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character. Sarah Orne Jewett
education teacher school
It is fitting that the Government of the United States should assume the obligation of the establishment and maintenance of a first-class university for the education of colored menand I wish to put in this caveatthat the colored race today, all of them, would be better off if they all had university education.... Of course, the basis of education of the colored people is in the primary schools and in industrial schools.... In those schools must be introduced teachers from such university institutions as this. William Howard Taft
education cost needs
We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated. Walter Lippmann
educational party mean
A long dispute means both parties are wrong. Voltaire
education force
Nature has always had more force than education.
education wisdom book
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
education teaching learning
Education is knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and its knowing how to use the information you get. William Feather
education mean people
In ability choice education finance majorities people understanding voting A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to be one of the people. That means he must have the same superstitions, the same unbalanced prejudices, and the same lack of understanding of public finances that are characteristic of the majority. A better choice would be a candidate who has a closer understanding and a better education than the majority. Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability.
education memories learning
In education it isn't how much you have committed to memory or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know and it's knowing how to use the information you get.
education class half
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know. William Ralph Inge
education knowledge facts
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
education storytelling our-time
Science is the storytelling of our time. William Irwin Thompson
education teaching forgive-me
God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being. Walter Scott
education learning progress-of-society
Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind. Winston Churchill
education heart rome
I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. I scribbled all my opinions on the margins of the pages ... From Gibbon I went to Macauley. I had learnt The Lays of Ancient Rome by heart, and loved them; and of course I knew he had written a history; but I had never read a page of it ... I accepted all Macauley wrote as gospel, and I was grieved to read his harsh judgements upon the Great Duke of Marlborough.