Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Roosevelt

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a meance to society.

Gary Turner

I thought, we need to educate people and teach them how to fish. It just seemed natural.

Dan Levin

I personally am hoping to educate people about housing up here and how Long Gulch Ranch fits into the housing priorities here.

Richard Askey

The first thing we need to do is educate our prospective teachers much better.

Jose Marti

To Educate is to Free.

Eugene Parker

Once they make that decision, you can't really look back. I lay out their options and educate them on the risks. We just want to make sure that they make an informed decision, not an emotional one.

Peter Judge

It's really important to educate yourself and your family. It behooves you to read and understand that calendar.

Robert Hutchins

The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives

Carol Roberts

It's great that Texas has taken our students at a time when we can't educate them. But eventually, I think, people will come back home. It's human nature to rebuild - and I think that's what will happen. In the long run, our school will be better.

Russell Lynes

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

William Zinsser

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.

William Jennings Bryan

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

William James

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

Roger Ascham

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Robert Scheer

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

Robert M. Hutchins

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

Salvador Dali

I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.

Salman Rushdie

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.