Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Murray

collaborative education is a better way to learn.

Margo Dewkett

And their first instinctual reaction is to flee. Everything we do in education is to teach the horse to stop, stand still You're in doubt, stand still.

Bill Rogers

The secret to not getting scammed and successfully getting a timeshare is all in the educational process prior to purchasing. It eliminates about 90 percent of the problems with timesharing.

Thomas Gregory

The move toward longer kindergarten, I think, encourages deterioration of parents involved in the education of the youngest of our children, I am not in favor of expanding (the concept) to all of Utah students.

William Strauss

The (old type) jobs are hard to get. What do you do if they fail to get a proper education?

Norman Augustine

The most unsuccessful four years in the education of a cost-estimator is fifth grade arithmetic.

Paul Gray

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

Jack Germond

Spend hundreds of millions; talk endlessly about issues; present 12-point plans for education, the economy, and the environment. But in the end, the election of our next president can turn on a gaffe.

Dianne Cox

Special education kids are always going to struggle with that accountability piece because special education kids are in the program because they have learning disabilities,

Barbara Park

I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.

Azar Nafisi

I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

Ayn Rand

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.

Audie Murphy

Actual combat experience is the only teacher. You never come out of a skirmish without having picked up a couple of new tricks; without having learned more about your enemy...Total involvement with the war was the only thing that kept me alive and pushing.

Brenda Ueland

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is: "Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out." And if you have no such friend,--and you want to write,--well, then you must imagine one.

Jan Karon

Paul said in the second epistle...the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine...they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn from the truth and wander away to myths.

Ben Goldacre

I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton.

Bryant H. McGill

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Charles Kettering

Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.

Brian Tracy

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Nancy Merrill

We want students working together, learning from each other. We have wonderful role models.

Arthur C. Clarke

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

Dave Ramsey

We learned early on that if we help enough people, the money will come.

Aubrey Peeples

It's about learning what's important and what's not important, and at the end of the day, what size you are does not matter at all. I don't have time to worry about that stuff; I'm going to be healthy.

Dave Bautista

If you're pursuing something that you love and you're learning something new, every day, that's the key to youth [staying young].

Andre Previn

There are a million things in music I know nothing about. I just want to narrow down that figure.

Ambrose Bierce

R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than "reductus in pulvis".