Quotes about education
education book school
All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
education mistake learning
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
educational technology emotional
Zappos uses call center technology to track average call time per agent. But the goal isn't to reduce this average - it's more important that we make an emotional connection with the customer, rather than just quickly getting them off the phone. Tony Hsieh
educational skills important
Learning how to learn is life's most important skill. Tony Buzan
education country rocks
The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations. Tom Wopat
educational effort legacy
A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are. Steve Berry
education science people
People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. Stephen Hawking
education kings book
Books are a uniquely portable magic. Stephen King
education school class
I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes. Sigrid Undset
education teaching school
I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese. Shirley Hufstedler
educational done world
The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields. Shirley Temple
education drag knows
The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend. Shawn Colvin
educational reality views
[It's] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time. Shawn Achor
education watches kind
There is no other investment that has the kind of social multiplier effect that early education has. It is an incredible thing to nurture and watch grow and spread. Shakira
education children taught-us
Our "life education" has not necessarily taught us a satisfying way to live. We suffer from a vague sense that there must be something more, some deeper meaning. We must return to kindergarten and start to learn a way of life that is contrary to the way we approached things before-a way of life based on trust of our own inner truth. We can rediscover the child-like innocence and wisdom that knows that anything is possible. Shakti Gawain
educational expectations marketing
Setting customer expectations at a level that is aligned with consistently deliverable levels of customer service requires that your whole staff, from product development to marketing, works in harmony with your brand image. Richard Branson
education sensibility
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence. Remy de Gourmont
educational lying simple
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
education office kind
Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate. Rem Koolhaas
educational technology impact
A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens. Tim Holden
education cities claims
In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece. Thucydides
education wise opportunity
Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that you ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education. Robert Andrews Millikan
education honest lawyer
It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors. Robert A. Heinlein
education teaching learning
When one teaches, two learn.
educational chance like-you
If you don't genuinely like your customers, chances are they won't buy. Thomas Watson
educational lying water
Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.
education teacher retirement
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. Thomas Szasz
educational government self
the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training. Thomas Jefferson
educational virginia people
The Petition of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Chapman Johnson, Joseph C. Cabell, James Breckenridge, John Hartwell Cocke, and Robert Taylor the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia ... Respectfully representeth ... That the value of science to a republican people, the security it...
educational people enough
what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has been raised by them, and appropriated to this very object. it is that it should be employed understandingly, and for their greatest good. that good requires that, while they are...
educational father reading
among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ... I think myself more indebted to my father for this, than for all the other luxuries his cares and affections have placed within my reach.
educational citizens instruction
A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.
educational character four
this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at all by our legislature who meet within a week from this time. my hopes however are kept in check by the ordinary character of our state legislatures, the members...