Famous Quotes & Sayings

Olivia Wilde

So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

Kid Rock

I pissed on my diploma, smell the aroma.

Kenny Smith

One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House of Intellect and its Hegelian/Bergsonian contrast between rigidified "intellect" and always-growing "intelligence." This fundamentally Hegelian distinction, needless to say, cuts to the quick of the contrast between Platonic and Aristotelian forms of philosophy.

Kenny Smith

The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of gnosis; but in academia there is virtually nothing but noetic minds to be found, and the very idea of gnosis is alien and untranslatable, not to mention discreditable.

Ken Robinson

Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems

Ken Robinson

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

Ken Robinson

We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

Ken Robinson

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

Ken Robinson

"Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves"

Ken Robinson

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

Kathy Ireland

I've learned so many things and a lot of things I've learned the hard way. I look at failure as education in that respect I'm very well educated.

Mark Twain

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

Mark Twain

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

Ben Bernanke

Smart financial planning - such as budgeting, saving for emergencies, and preparing for retirement - can help households enjoy better lives while weathering financial shocks. Financial education can play a key role in getting to these outcomes.

B. F. Skinner

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

Ashley Montagu

In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.

Bernie Siegel

It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents, teachers, and other authority figures who should know better from their experience. Information is about facts. Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.

Paul Wellstone

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

Mary McLeod Bethune

From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.

Mary McLeod Bethune

Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.

Martin Bormann

Every educated person is a future enemy.

Martin Buber

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

Peter Medawar

It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools.

Quentin Bryce

Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.

Quintilian

Minds that are stupid and incapable of science are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary phenomena; minds of this sort are rare. Hence I conclude that there are great resources to be found in children, which are suffered to vanish with their years. It is evident, therefore, that it is not of nature, but of our own negligence, we ought to complain.