Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.

Jose Marti

The only way to be totally free is through education.

Kenneth Clark

The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of their masters.

Kerry Stokes

The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first.

Napoleon Hill

The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.

Mahatma Gandhi

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

Fred Wilson

Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something from you other than equity in your business. Customers also help you fit your product to the market. And customers will help debug and improve the quality of the product.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Northrop Frye

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.

Ellen Goodman

Even if every program were educational and every advertisement bore the seal of approval of the American Dental Association, we would still have a critical problem. It's not just the programs but the act of watching television hour after hour after hour that's destructive.

Eric Ries

Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.

Emily Dickinson

We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.

Emeril Lagasse

We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community.