Famous Quotes & Sayings

Renee Zellweger

Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.

Richard Bach

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

Russell Baker

How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high grades? Year after year we listen to these fellows tell us that it is not the grade that counts but the development of the child's personality. After the lecture they go back to all the best schools and reject our children because they have C averages.

Russell Baker

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

Ruben Hinojosa

It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.

Ruben Blades

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Umberto Eco

I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

Tryon Edwards

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.

Tryon Edwards

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Rick Boucher

The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.

Robert Green Ingersoll

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

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.

Ronald Reagan

A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow.

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.