Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woodrow Wilson

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.

Woodrow Wilson

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.

Saint Augustine

I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

William Vickrey

Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in terms of an enhanced quality of life.

Will Rogers

The Schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

Will Rogers

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

Zig Ziglar

What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.

Zhuangzi

My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

Wendell Johnson

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

Wendell Berry

If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree.

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.

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.

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.

Rudolf Steiner

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

A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective will of the international community to ensure that the necessary support is forthcoming.

Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.

International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere

It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if so many remain without the basic tools of literacy?

Kofi Annan

On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that both are critical for achieving truly sustainable development for all.

Kofi Annan

Young people - with their dynamism, their energy and their inherent understanding of our interconnected world - have much to teach us. Increased educational attainment, advances in technology and the spread of information have made this generation the best educated, most connected and most informed in history

Kofi Annan

literacy is at the heart of sustainable development

Kofi Annan

Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.

Kevin Kline

I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.

Kelly Miller

Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.

Laura Ashley

We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity, these are companies that are creating extraordinary social good and extraordinary economic and educational empowerment, all within with context of a for-profit model.

Larry Bird

The nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you do. Recognize your assets and employ them to the best of your ability.

Terry Pratchett

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'

Terry Eagleton

Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way.

Terence McKenna

So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make a model of the world that is not imprisoning. That's why, second to psychedelics, I think travel is the most boundary-dissolving, educational enterprise that you can get mixed up in.

Temple Grandin

When kids are really little, they all look the same. No speech, no social relatedness, cannot emphasize enough the importance of early educational intervention.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.