Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

Shania Twain

Don't freak out until you know the facts.

Shelby Foote

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

Shelby Steele

Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and whites. And failing in this, affirmative action also fails to help blacks achieve true equality with whites - the ultimate measure of which is parity in skills and individual competence. Without this underlying parity there can never be true equality in employment, income levels, rates of home ownership, educational achievement and the rest.

Seymour Papert

Corporate America needs to get its act together to see that the education system is changed so it produces what it needs. The educational system that teaches kids to be passive recipients of knowledge worked when most workers were sitting in assembly lines.

Seymour Papert

Now more people are doing work that requires individual decision-making and problem-solving, and we need an educational system that will help develop those skills.

Seymour Papert

There's a tendency to make jazzy educational software that's very uniform and therefore just like school. I'd like to see a company develop software for rebellious kids who don't want to go to school.

Lady Gregory

There's more learning than is taught in books.

Marco Rubio

I believe that there are barriers, educational barriers, cultural barriers, societal barriers, that are keeping people from accessing the promise of a vibrant free enterprise economy.

Marco Rubio

Our higher education system is controlled by what amounts to a cartel of existing colleges and universities, which use their power over the accreditation process to block innovative, low-cost competitors from entering the market.

Marco Rubio

I'm all for reforming our higher education system, in the 21st century, to have the skills you need for a middle-class job, you need higher education of some form or fashion. It may not be a four-year degree. The problem is he just wants to pour that additional money into the broken, existing system.

Marc Jacobs

But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.

Sandra Cisneros

If we got an educational program going, we could tell people, "Instead of butter, use avocado." That's something we eat, it has the good fat, and it has a good texture, and it tastes better. Just imagine if you substituted that. Or if we switched to olive oil, the extra virgin olive oil, we could still have our taquitos, but put a little oil on them and put them in the oven and bake them.

Samuel Johnson

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Samuel Johnson

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Samuel Johnson

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Samuel Johnson

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Samuel Johnson

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Sam Cooke

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.

Ronald Reagan

Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children the values and the virtues handed down to us by our families, to have the courage to defend those values and the willingess to sacrifice for them. Let us pledge to restore, in our time, the American spirit of voluntary service, of cooperation, of private and community initiative, a spirit that flows like a deep and mighty river through the history of our nation.

Robertson Davies

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I'd like to say a few words about one of the most popular concepts in the modern education--show and tell. Show and Tell is a device created by grammar schools to communicate family secrets to 32 other families before 9:15 am in the morning.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

Walt Disney

Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.

Walt Disney

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Vita Sackville-West

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

Walt Whitman

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

Walt Whitman

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Tom Osborne

As a college coach, I felt you could make a difference in a player's life. There was an educational aspect I thought was important.

Sam Houston

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

S. I. Hayakawa

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.