Quotes about education
education baby curiosity
No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out. B. F. Skinner
education understanding way
Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way. B. F. Skinner
education children giving
Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything. B. F. Skinner
education perseverance giving-up
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. B. F. Skinner
education teaching giving
By the miracle of teaching, I can give you some of my ability, without losing any of it myself. Ashleigh Brilliant
educational kids succeed
You teach kids how to succeed when they successfully foil the educational system. Arlo Guthrie
education believe students
When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment. Arlen Specter
education teaching messages
In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message. Ashley Montagu
education teacher loss
It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents, teachers, and other authority figures who should know better from their experience. Information is about facts. Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive. Bernie Siegel
education children plato
Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to "real" people and everyday events--knew what intellectual experience made for true humanity. He suggested that the future citizens of his ideal republic begin their literary education with the telling of myths, rather than with mere facts or so-called rational teachings. Bruno Bettelheim
education learning moon
This (scanning project) is our chance to one-up the Greeks! It is really possible with the technology of today, not tomorrow. We can provide all the works of humankind to all the people of the world. It will be an achievement remembered for all time, like putting a man on the moon. Brewster Kahle
education mistake science
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment. Arthur Conan Doyle
education mistake math
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. Arthur Conan Doyle
educational world stones
Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world. Ben Parr
education depth deep-relationship
We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same. Barbara Hershey
educational teaching agreement
Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be unconscious of - others? Does the educational system exist in order to promulgate knowledge, or is its main function rather to universalize a society’s tacit agreement about what it has decided it does not and cannot know? Barbara Johnson
educational holiday world
Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love. Barbara Jordan
educational keys political
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment. Barbara Jordan
education school two
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind. Barbara Kingsolver
educational men baha
Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.
educational cities names
Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth, that haply the dissensions that divide it may, through the power of the Most Great Name, be blotted out from its face, and all mankind become the upholders of one Order, and the inhabitants of one City....
education mother steps
Milton calls the university A stony-hearted step-mother. Augustine Birrell
educational democracy politician
Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
education country school
While my friends were discussing Pearl Harbor as the country's problem, I took it personally. It dawned on me that the Japanese attack could be my ticket out of high school. Art Buchwald
education sports college
When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. Arthur Ashe
education importance order plain sharing succeed
We're always sharing the importance of education with them. It's plain - in order to succeed in life, you've got to get an education.
education versus
Education is not Democrat versus Republican. It's about doing the right things for the right reason for our kids.
education
Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.
education illumination light
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. Edward Abbey
education learning levels
Education begins at the level of the learner. Aristotle
education school youth
Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education. Aristotle
education school people
Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones. Aristotle
education teaching men
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. Aristotle