Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. F. Skinner

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Ashleigh Brilliant

By the miracle of teaching, I can give you some of my ability, without losing any of it myself.

Arlo Guthrie

You teach kids how to succeed when they successfully foil the educational system.

Arlen Specter

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

Nancy Gibbs

When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.

Publilius Syrus

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Paul Hawken

There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum.

Pete Seeger

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Tyler Oakley

A lot of the education that I got at Michigan State I still use to this very day.

Vint Cerf

One thing we know for sure is that the Web is a collaborative medium unlike any we've ever had before. We see people working together, playing together, interacting in social settings using these media. We hope that will emerge as the new tool for education.

Victor LaValle

Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.

Aleksandar Hemon

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

Aleister Crowley

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

Albert Einstein

The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

Albert Einstein

The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.

Albert Einstein

I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.

Albert Einstein

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Albert Einstein

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

Albert Einstein

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

Albert Einstein

All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Alfred North Whitehead

Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.

Alfred North Whitehead

Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

Alfred North Whitehead

The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.

Alfred North Whitehead

Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.

Alfred North Whitehead

Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.

Alfred Marshall

Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).

Alec Baldwin

You can be someone running...who is just a soaring leader of people. But if you don't have the finances down, you're going to have a problem.