Famous Quotes & Sayings

S. I. Hayakawa

The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing in biological, political, and socioeconomic fairy tales) as long as possible ... that students should be given the best possible maps of the territories of experience in order that they may be prepared for life, is not as popular as might be assumed.

Russell Simmons

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

Ronald Graham

The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.

Ronald Graham

Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics is fun, and we aren't ashamed to admit the fact. Why should a strict boundary line be drawn between work and play? Concrete mathematics is full of appealing patterns; the manipulations are not always easy, but the answers can be astonishingly attractive.

Ronald Reagan

There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age...can light the rest of our lives, elevating our ideals, deepening our tolerance, and sharpening our appetite for knowledge about the rest of the world. Educational and cultural exchanges...provide a perfect opportunity for this precious spark to grow, making us more sensitive and wiser international citizens through our careers.

Saadi

Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away.

Roy H. Williams

The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.

Ron Silver

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit

Susan Orlean

I approach stories as a private educational enterprise: I want to learn about something. I teach myself through research, reporting, and thinking, and then, when I feel like I know the story, I tell it to readers.

Susan Orlean

States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated.

Susan George

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

Susan B. Anthony

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

Sugata Mitra

We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It’s not about making learning happen; it’s about letting it happen.

Thomas A. Edison

I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.

Thomas A. Edison

Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.

Thomas A. Edison

Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are wiser than we know.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

Tallulah Bankhead

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

Tony Robbins

To me, money is a vehicle; it's a tool. I could use it as a weapon to destroy things or money can create-you can create an opportunity, you can create a charity, you can create things for your family, you can go do something for your family that nobody else would ever do. You can create educational opportunities, you can feed people overseas. And there's a tremendous leverage with money, or you can destroy people with it.

Tony Benn

Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part in shaping British democracy than most constitutional lawyers, political commentators, historians or statesmen have ever cared to admit. Direct action in a democratic society is fundamentally an educational exercise.

Tom Petty

You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.

Simone Weil

Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.

Simone Weil

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Simone Weil

The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.

Simone Weil

Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.

Simon Newcomb

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.

Simon Mainwaring

How much do you as a consumer value a positive experience with a brand or its customer service department? How willing are you to share that with your friends? How inclined are you to let that person know that you're interaction with them was positive?

Thomas Carlyle

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

Thomas Carlyle

You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."

Thomas Carlyle

I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,--what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it.