Quotes about education
education giving imagination
An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind. Samuel Richardson
education money land
For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent. Samuel Foote
education teaching men
He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything. Samuel Butler
education lying aids-day
Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me. Ryan White
education people needs
Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.
education spiritual war
For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought? Virginia Gildersleeve
education real boys
It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense. William Cobbett
education teacher teaching
A teacher should be sparing of his smile. William Cowper
education children father
It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father. Vaughn Monroe
education hope new-york
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour. Vartan Gregorian
education thinking enlightenment
Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think. Van Morrison
education teacher father
No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.
education morning teaching
I'd like to say a few words about one of the most popular concepts in the modern education--show and tell. Show and Tell is a device created by grammar schools to communicate family secrets to 32 other families before 9:15 am in the morning.
education money communication
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. Robert Louis Stevenson
education thinking firsts
The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.
education hope learning
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. Walt Disney
education humble illiterate-person
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. Walt Whitman
education laughter inspiration
I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
education passion men
I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try the truth of any observation relating to the mind, the easiest method is to illustrate it by outward objects. If, for instance, a man was to sweat and labor all the days of his life to fill a chest which was already full, the absurdity of his vain endeavor would be glaring. In the same manner, when the human mind is filled and stuffed with notions brought thither by fallacious inclinations, there is no room for truth to enter: candor being banished, passions alone bear the sway. Sarah Fielding
education taken names
Little miss is taught by her mamma that she must never speak before she is spoken to. On this she sits bridling up her head, looking from one to the other, in hopes of being called to and addressed by the name of pretty miss.... But if this should not happen and no one should take any notice of her, she is ready to cry at the neglect. But should there be another miss in the room caressed and taken notice of whilst she is thus overlooked, it will be impossible for her to contain her tears, and blubbering is the word.
education self vanity
Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.
education mean priorities
We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it. Roger Scruton
education children home
Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents. Roger Moore
education teacher hurt
When we grew up and went to school There were certain teachers who would Hurt the children anyway they could By pouring their derision Upon anything we did And exposing every weakness However carefully hidden by the kids Roger Waters
education mean exercise
Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having. Ronald Reagan
education children america
If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer.
education responsibility home
Our leaders must remember that education doesn't begin with some isolated bureaucrat in Washington. It doesn't even begin with state or local officials. Education begins in the home, where it is a parental right and responsibility.
educational self-confidence awards
Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one's own strength. Sai Baba
educational people vision
Education should serve to enlarge the vision and broaden the outlook of the people.
educational skills quality
Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.
educational mean humility
Education confers humility, endows one with the authority to command, that will entitle one to affluence. With the help of charity and compassion this affluence can be made fruitful, and by this means, happiness in this world and peace in the next can be won.
educational humility pride
Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.
educational humility sacrifice
Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.