Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Donne

For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere

John Dewey

There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.

John Dewey

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

John Dewey

Various epochs of the past have had their own characteristic struggles and interests. Each of these great epochs has left behind itself a kind of cultural deposit, like a geologic stratum. These deposits have found their way into educational institutions in the form of studies, distinct courses of study, distinct types of schools.

John Dewey

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.

John Dewey

I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can regulate and form itself in a more or less haphazard and chance way. But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move.

John Dewey

Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.

John Dewey

The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.

John Dewey

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

John Dewey

The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

John Dewey

Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy. Any subject matter which accomplishes this result is humane, and any subject matter which does not accomplish it is not even educational.

George Clooney

Even other movies I wasn't involved with, I'd watch them edit 'cause I really enjoy watching them go through their process. It's a very economical, educational process.

John Bunyan

The more he cast away, the more he had.

John Fowles

Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training as the best possible training. Those who are most successful in the state are those who have the most interest in prolonging the state as it is; they are also those who have the most say in the educational system, and in particular by ensuring that the educational product they want is the most highly rewarded.

Leo Burnett

Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising.

Leo Burnett

If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing bsuiness at all.

Leo Burnett

The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.

Leo Burnett

We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.'

John Lancaster Spalding

Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.

Jim Rohn

A rose on time is more valuable than a $1,000 gift that's too late.

Judith Leiber

I am not pushy. You want it, you buy it. Most people hit the customer over the head. But if you're too self-important, it's kind of repellent.

Kate Mosse

The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.

John Katzman

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.

John Kenneth Galbraith

People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

Lyndon B. Johnson

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is "education."

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

God is in the details.

Lord Hailsham

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

Malcolm Gladwell

If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.

Major Owens

I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.

Major Owens

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

Major Owens

I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.

Mahatma Gandhi

True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.