Quotes about education
education wisdom teaching
You teach best what you most need to learn. Richard Bach
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
education ignorance government
A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support. Thomas Paine
education dark mind
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
education country art
To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning around. Surely our innocent pleasures are not so abundant in this life, that we can afford to despise this or any other source of them. Thomas Huxley
education moving law
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but people and their ways; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws.
education country art
To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.
education teaching men
That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.
education law instruction
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.
education organization body
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
education teaching care
I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.
education learning responsibility
I have always been, am, and propose to remain a mere scholar. All that I have ever proposed to myself is to say, this and this I have learned; thus and thus have I learned it; go thou and learn better; but do not thrust on my shoulders the responsibility for your own laziness if you elect to take, on my authority, conclusions the value of which you ought to have tested for yourself.
education may impossible
Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.
education knowledge authority-and-power
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
education geometry blinded
She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry. Thomas Dolby
educational commitment economic-inequality
The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy. Timothy Geithner
education humorous learning
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Timothy Leary
educational mean ideas
Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median - it's in the differences that occur throughout a population. Tom Peters
educational promise formulas
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
educational simple faster
It's relatively simple. If we're not getting more, better, faster than they are getting more, better, faster, then we're getting less, no better or more worse.
educational philosophy thinking
If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when you think you are mastering them - it is nonetheless perpetually fascinating, frequently surprising, occasionally rewarding, and it comes already assembled. [...] Alas! the brain is a toy that plays games of its own. Its very most favorite game is the one-thing-leads-to-another game. Tom Robbins
educational philosophy two
There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers.
educational philosophy ironic
'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.
educational brain littles
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
educational philosophy life-is-like
Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.
educational philosophy moon
Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more.