Quotes about education
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. Oscar Wilde
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.
education inspirational-life fighting
Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy. Mark Twain
education school jail
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.
education food inspiration
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
education wise stupid
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
education wisdom horse
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
education dog school
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
educational inspiration iron-ore
Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
education learning way
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
education experience lessons
... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.
education responsibility doe
... education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at least a few guideposts pointing toward the implementation of these obligations.
education truth mean
The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars in the social sciences is important. It is equally important to devise ways and means for aiding the middle-aged and old to reexamine hang-over unscientific doctrines and ideas in the light of recent discovery and research.
education probability-theory branches
In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory. Martin Gardner
education teacher math
Indeed, there is something to be said for the old math when taught by a poorly trained teacher. He can, at least, get across the fundamental rules of calculation without too much confusion. The same teacher trying to teach new math is apt to get across nothing at all...
educational issues support
I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function - that's important, and fine, and I support it. Noam Chomsky
education school poetry
Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content. Nikki Giovanni
education educational progress
Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one.
education school value-of-education
It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
education learning people
most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant. Mary McCarthy
education children teaching
Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else. Marva Collins
education teacher school
There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from 'audio-visual aids' - flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.
education teacher children
Students do not need to be labeled or measured any more than they are. They don't need more Federal funds, grants, and gimmicks. What they need from us is common sense, dedication, and bright, energetic teachers who believe that all children are achievers and who take personally the failure of any one child.
education interference schooling
Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.