Quotes about education
education teaching care
I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well. Thomas Huxley
education learning responsibility
I have always been, am, and propose to remain a mere scholar. All that I have ever proposed to myself is to say, this and this I have learned; thus and thus have I learned it; go thou and learn better; but do not thrust on my shoulders the responsibility for your own laziness if you elect to take, on my authority, conclusions the value of which you ought to have tested for yourself.
education may impossible
Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.
education knowledge authority-and-power
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
education geometry blinded
She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry. Thomas Dolby
educational commitment economic-inequality
The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy. Timothy Geithner
education humorous learning
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Timothy Leary
educational school skills
Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop the skills and discipline required to produce a coherent analysis, based on logic and evidence. The implications of having so many people so incapable of confronting opposing arguments with anything besides ad hominem responses reach far... Thomas Sowell
education self-esteem school
Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.
education empty professors
Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.
educational school thinking
Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.
educational school america
My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School. Thomas Peterffy
education years pieces
Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays. Robert B. Parker
educational discovery
The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?" Robert Ballard
educational thinking people
People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots. Robert Anton Wilson
education taken decision
We have taken a strategic decision to gather education activities under a single roof. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
education mean civilization
If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational problem there.
education religious racism
When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.
education teacher morning
The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school. T. D. Jakes
education emotional intelligence
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time. T. S. Eliot
educational home where-home-is
Home is where one starts from.
education school development
we already have so much pressure towards sameness through radio, film and comic outside the school, that we can't afford to do a thing inside that is not toward individual development ... Sylvia Ashton-Warner
education ideas conscious
Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.
education college mind
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. Sydney J. Harris
education silly book
I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't. Susan Sontag
education book heart
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.
education being-positive chance
Learn to be positive, it's your only chance. Ray Davies
education teacher children
The teacher left her wisdom, in the minds of lots of children, and did her best to give them all a better start. Randy Travis
education jesus knows
I know the author of my every breath, oh that's Jesus.
education light shining
Maybe we could learn a little lesson, maybe this all shine a little light, cause there's no healthy way to mess with the line between wrong and right.
education patriotic free-opinion
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. Thomas Jefferson
education years europe
Of all the errors which can possibly be committed to the education of youth, that of sending them to Europe is the most fatal. I see [clearly] that no American should come to Europe under 30 years of age.
education views law
But of all the views of this law [universal education] none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.