Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rush Limbaugh

The way to improve our schools is not more money, but the reintroduction of moral and spiritual values, as well as the four R's: reading, 'riting, 'rithmatic, and Rush.

Rush Limbaugh

Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

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.

W. Somerset Maugham

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

Yakov Smirnoff

We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The best way to learn is through the powerful force of rhythm.

William Osler

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles...

William Osler

I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.

William Osler

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

William Penn

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

Zig Ziglar

You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.

Zig Ziglar

Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect's mind.