Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ovid

To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

Ovid

Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.

Paul Erdos

When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion. So that makes me two and a half billion.

Mary Wollstonecraft

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.

Mary Wollstonecraft

... in the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment ...

Mary Wollstonecraft

The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

Marshall McLuhan

Education is civil defence against media fallout.

Marshall McLuhan

Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.

Marshall McLuhan

Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

Marshall McLuhan

Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.

Maria Callas

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

Margery Williams

It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time.

Paul Goodman

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

Paul Goodman

There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture.

Pat Benatar

We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith.

Pat Buchanan

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.

Murray Rothbard

Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for cultural and ideological brainwashing, at which they are unfortunately far more effective than in teaching the 3 R's or in keeping simple order within the schools. Any plan to begin dismantling the public school monstrosity is met with effective opposition by the teachers' and educators' unions. Truly radical change is needed to shift education from public to unregulated private schooling, religious and secular, as well as home schooling by parents.

Moliere

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.

Moliere

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

Milton Berle

Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.

Milton Berle

Nowadays, when a speaker tells the graduates that the future is theirs--is that a promise or a threat?

Milton Berle

It was a tough school. The kids on the debating team took steroids!

Milton Berle

One teacher recently retired with a half-million dollars after 30 years of working hard, caring, dedicating herself and totally immensing herself in the problems of the students. That gave her $50. The rest of the money came from the death of a rich uncle.

Milton Berle

The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn't stop until you get to school.

Milton Berle

When I was in school, one of my teachers was crazy about me. I once heard her tell another teacher, "I wish he was my kid for one day!"

Milton Berle

For every studen with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.

Milton Friedman

The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.

Natalia Ginzburg

As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.

Munshi Premchand

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

Julia Ward Howe

Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.