Quotes about education
education children freedom
Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good. Michel de Montaigne
education self littles
In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.
education art teaching
Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.
education weakness world
Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
education art lessons
Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art... Michael Kimmelman
education art lying
Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable. Mark Twain
education records i-can
The most that I can learn is in records that you burn. Marilyn Manson
educational
It's not what you say, but how you say it! Mae West
educational opportunity childhood
CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY Michael K. Williams
education youth study
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge. Francois Rabelais
education knowledge dark
The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to destruction. But, by God's goodness, in my time light and dignity were returned to letters, and I see there such improvement that today I would have great difficulty being admitted to the most elementary classes--I, who in my time was reputed to be (and not wrongly) to be the most knowledgeable person of the century.
educational america goal
If increasing income equality is the goal, it might be wiser to put money into infrastructure than to subsidize manufacturing. Construction also pays good wages, but with lower educational requirements. And America's infrastructure needs are enormous. Christina Romer
education simple wind
To me, it's simple: if you've got the time, use it to get ready. What else could you possibly have to do that's more important? Yes, maybe you'll learn how to do a few things you'll never wind up actually needing to do, but that's a much better problem to have than needing to do something and having no clue where to start. Chris Hadfield
educational responsibility practice
Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood. Germaine Greer
education dog school
I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school. Gertrude Stein
educational preparation littles
For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period. Havelock Ellis
educational views museums
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines. Hans Haacke
education wise religious
... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish? Frances Wright
educational understanding
Education is understanding relationships. George Washington Carver
education learning race
Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.
educational self discovery
I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.
educational leaving african-american
No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.
education teacher freedom
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
education government giving
Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened. George Washington
education country regret
It has always been a source of serious reflection and sincere regret with me that the youth of the United States should be sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education. Although there are many who escape the danger of contracting principles unfavorable to republican governments, yet we ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds from being too strongly and too early prejudiced in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.
education mind employment
The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.
education country art
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
education mean people
The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.
education appreciate political
We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.
education wisdom religious
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
education ideas difficulty
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. George Santayana
education teacher children
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
education judgment aim
The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.