Quotes about education
education
Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.
education should asks
We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned. Mary Wortley Montagu
education country gold
A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine. Benjamin Franklin
education horse ignorance
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on. Benjamin Franklin
education answers mathematics
The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated. Benjamin Franklin
education mother country
If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes, which should be followed by the best modern histories, particularly of our mother country; then of these colonies; which should be accompanied with observations on their rise, increase, use to Great Britain, encouragements and discouragements, the means to make them flourish, and secure their liberties. Benjamin Franklin
education art men
History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth. Benjamin Franklin
education thinking voice
I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven. Benjamin Franklin
education money careers
Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole. Ben Bernanke
education zero philosophy
Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Arthur Conan Doyle
education years four
That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable. Arthur Brisbane
educational dedication community
We will ensure that associates continue to possess unsurpassed product knowledge and maintain their dedication to customer service and respect for their colleagues and for the communities in which they work and live. Arthur Blank
education men culture
The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is. Anton Chekhov
education thoughtful thinking
We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic. bell hooks
educational reality class
Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings. bell hooks
educational heart thinking
Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that is good remains wedded to the very logic of Western metaphysical dualism that is the heart of racist binary thinking. Such thinking is not liberatory. Like the racist educational ideology it mirrors and imitates, it invites a closing of the mind. bell hooks
educational passion justice
All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions-and society-so that the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our passion for justice, and our love of freedom. bell hooks
education freedom moving
The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom. bell hooks
education peace passion
The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all. Aung San Suu Kyi
education best-education wells
The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth. Anthony Trollope
education reading writing
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily. Anthony Trollope
education children learning
This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind. Desiderius Erasmus
education library paradise
Your library is your paradise. Desiderius Erasmus
education wisdom lying
The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth Desiderius Erasmus
educational book kids
It may sound strange, but when you're a kid and you're in that environment, for some reason for a long time you think, when the doors are closed in other houses, this is what it's like everywhere. And then at some point you begin to realize that isn't true, and books were really the educational system that showed me that there were many better and different ways to live a life. Dean Koontz
education technology artist
The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. But the keys to the kingdom are changing hands.The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind-creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.These people-artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers-will now reap society's richest rewards and share its greatest joys. Daniel H. Pink
education asking-why understanding
Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs. Daniel H. Pink
education teacher reading
Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional literacy. And while laudable efforts are being made to raise academic standards, this new and troubling deficiency is not being addressed in the standard school curriculum. As one Brooklyn teacher put it, the present emphasis in schools suggests that "we care more about how well schoolchildren can read and write than whether they'll be alive next week." Daniel Goleman
education song criticism
Don't criticize what you can't understand. Bob Dylan
education grace way
They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks. Bob Dylan
education people too-much
People tell me it's a sin, to know and feel too much within. Bob Dylan
education taught streets
Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street. Bob Dylan
education distance degrees
As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance. Bob Dylan