Quotes about education
education individual-happiness judging
The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend. Thomas Jefferson
education men order
To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which are to commence the higher branches of education . . . . To develop the reasoning faculties of our youth, enlarge their minds, cultivate their morals, and instill into them the precepts of virtue and order.
education government two
There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties into wards. I consider the continuance of republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks.
education people feelings
People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.
education states sensible
All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.
education country hands
Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands of private enterprise, which manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal, but a public institution can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely called for, are yet necessary to complete the circle, all the parts of which contribute to the improvement of the country, and some of them to its preservation.
education country medicine
I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education, and placing our rising generation on the level of our sister states (which they have proudly held heretofore), I was discharging the odious function of a physician pouring medicine down the throat of a patient insensible of needing it.
education want poverty
The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of a part than would be paid for that of the whole if systematically arranged.
educational school people
One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and pound his fist: 'It's all about the customers!' And he was right. He was also right that, at that time, retailing was devoid of really talented people; he urged me to go in that direction. Thomas G. Stemberg
educational fall forget
Forget 'branding' and 'positioning.' Once you understand customer behavior, everything else falls into place.
educational shoes not-good-enough
If a customer walks out without shoes, you really want to find out why. 'It didn't fit' is not good enough.
education daughter mother
When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.' Thomas Friedman
educational parent church
And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest. Thomas Keneally
education people acquisition
I have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their taste or their time or their inclination would lead them to realize. Thomas Chalmers
education class training
A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants...In so far as it is, by definition, the training of upper servants, it includes, of course, the instilling of that kind of confidence which will enable the upper servants to supervise and direct the lower servants. Raymond Williams
education ideas knowledge-learning
Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research. Raymond Queneau
education errors giving
Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. Vilfredo Pareto
educational philosophy sun
If nobody loved, the sun would go out. Victor Hugo
education school common-sense
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
education appreciation teacher
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
education business men
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
education teacher want
If you don't want to be a teacher, you'd better get off this planet. Richard Bach
education what-matters people
Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.
education learning-knowledge doers
Learning is finding out what you already know.
education wisdom teaching
You teach best what you most need to learn.
education reading writing
All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas. Robert Frost
education people kindergarten
All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess ... Robert Fulghum
education life-changing aging
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
education philosophy teaching
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
education teacher
I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.
educational egalitarianism achievement
An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement. Robert Bork
education teacher errors
The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood. Rene Descartes
educational men garden
They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte. Thomas More