Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julia Ward Howe

The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead.

Mark Twain

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

Mark Twain

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

Mark Twain

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Mark Twain

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Mark Twain

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

Mark Twain

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Mark Twain

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.

... education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at least a few guideposts pointing toward the implementation of these obligations.

The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars in the social sciences is important. It is equally important to devise ways and means for aiding the middle-aged and old to reexamine hang-over unscientific doctrines and ideas in the light of recent discovery and research.

Martin Gardner

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

Martin Gardner

Indeed, there is something to be said for the old math when taught by a poorly trained teacher. He can, at least, get across the fundamental rules of calculation without too much confusion. The same teacher trying to teach new math is apt to get across nothing at all...

Noam Chomsky

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function - that's important, and fine, and I support it.

Nikki Giovanni

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

Nikki Giovanni

Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one.

Nikki Giovanni

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

Mary McCarthy

most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.

Marva Collins

Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.

Marva Collins

There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from 'audio-visual aids' - flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.

Marva Collins

Students do not need to be labeled or measured any more than they are. They don't need more Federal funds, grants, and gimmicks. What they need from us is common sense, dedication, and bright, energetic teachers who believe that all children are achievers and who take personally the failure of any one child.

Mark Twain

Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

Mitchel Resnick

I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.

Mikhail Bulgakov

I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.

Marian Wright Edelman

It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.

Marian Wright Edelman

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Marian Wright Edelman

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It's not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.