Quotes about education
education teaching learning
Education is knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and its knowing how to use the information you get. William Feather
education mean people
In ability choice education finance majorities people understanding voting A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to be one of the people. That means he must have the same superstitions, the same unbalanced prejudices, and the same lack of understanding of public finances that are characteristic of the majority. A better choice would be a candidate who has a closer understanding and a better education than the majority. Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability.
education memories learning
In education it isn't how much you have committed to memory or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know and it's knowing how to use the information you get.
education class half
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know. William Ralph Inge
education knowledge facts
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
education storytelling our-time
Science is the storytelling of our time. William Irwin Thompson
education teaching forgive-me
God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being. Walter Scott
education learning progress-of-society
Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind. Winston Churchill
education heart rome
I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. I scribbled all my opinions on the margins of the pages ... From Gibbon I went to Macauley. I had learnt The Lays of Ancient Rome by heart, and loved them; and of course I knew he had written a history; but I had never read a page of it ... I accepted all Macauley wrote as gospel, and I was grieved to read his harsh judgements upon the Great Duke of Marlborough.
education school two
How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.
education latin school
In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.
education littles firsts
It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced.
education country privilege
The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.
education teaching college
I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.
educational school home
How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.
education fighting political
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
educational taught unschooling
I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.
education mean second-best
Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best. William Lyon Phelps
education wall order
How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.
education college conservative
The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. Woodrow Wilson
educational acceptance hands
I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.
education mistake giving
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
educational lying men
The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.
education book beer
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. Woody Allen
education school boys
I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw]. William Merritt Chase
education struggle kids
In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever. William J. Clinton
educational creativity responsibility
Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.
educational views ideas
To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions, or distinctions, or points of view. But while these special ideas are being added, the rest of your knowledge stands still, and only gradually will you line up your previous opinions with the novelties I am trying to instill, and to modify to some slight degree their mass. ..Your mind in such processes is strained, and sometimes painfully so, between its older beliefs and the novelties which experience brings along. William James
educational philosophy men
The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes connected with the fortunes of the self, it forthwith becomes an interesting thing.
educational philosophy emotional
An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.
educational philosophy literature
It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
educational philosophy science
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.
educational philosophy men
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life