Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will McDonough

I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.

Walter Annenberg

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

Virginia Woolf

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

William Bennett

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

William Bennett

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools

William Blake

I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. Black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel works Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden, which Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve, in harmony & peace.

Wentworth Miller

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.

Walker Percy

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

Samuel Richardson

An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.

Samuel Foote

For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent.

Samuel Dash

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

Samuel Butler

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

Salma Hayek

If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.

Ryan White

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

Rudolf Steiner

It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives

Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.

Virginia Gildersleeve

For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought?

William Cobbett

It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.

William Cowper

A teacher should be sparing of his smile.

Vaughn Monroe

It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.

Vartan Gregorian

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

Van Morrison

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.

Van Morrison

No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.

Twyla Tharp

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.

Twyla Tharp

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

William Glasser

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

William Glasser

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

William Glasser

We learn... 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we both hear and see 70% of what is discussed 80% of what we experience personally 95% of what we teach to someone else

William Godwin

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

Walter Lippmann

We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

Voltaire

A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

Voltaire

Nature has always had more force than education.

Voltaire

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.