Quotes about education
education college idiot
If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college? Coolio
education sex learning
I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty. Clark Kerr
education school annoying
Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that they don't do something else! Daniel Quinn
education believe intelligence
they believe in Christ and Longfellow, both dead e. e. cummings
education science leader
But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader. Adolf Hitler
education science people
A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.
education determination taken
The folkish state must not adjust its entire educational work primarily to the inoculation of mere knowledge, but to the breeding of absolutely healthy bodies. The training of mental abilities is only secondary. And here again, first place must be taken by the development of character, especially the promotion of will-power and determination, combined with the training of joy in responsibility, and only in last place comes scientific schooling.
education fall science
Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life.
education science men
The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases, the material to be learned in the various subjects is so swollen that only a fraction of it remains in the head of the individual pupil, and only a fraction of this abundance can find application, while on the other hand it is not adequate for the man working and earning his living in a definite field.
education destiny young-generation
By educating the young generation along the right lines, the People's State will have to see to it that a generation of mankind is formed which will be adequate to this supreme combat that will decide the destinies of the world.
education ignorant-masses learned-person
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
education father book
I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what "demonstrate" means, and went back to my law studies. Abraham Lincoln
education ignorance envy
I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss. Ani Difranco
education brain facts
A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.
education jobs children
To criminally prosecute a child not old enough to go to the school prom makes no sense, you get much more cooperation from a victim if you give them a safe harbor, a place to live, job training, an education. Amy Klobuchar
education people said
It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual. Allen Klein
education teacher purple
Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear. Allan Sherman
education impediments seems
An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment. Allan Bloom
education college years
The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.
education art passion
Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art....
education army opportunity
A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat. Allen West
education nice gossip
If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all. Aesop
education college long
In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life. Abraham Maslow
education wisdom humorous
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
education teacher teaching
Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.
education writing age
When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.
education teaching mean
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
education hygiene forever
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
education roots people
To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.
education memories philosophical
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner. Aleister Crowley
education important pupils
The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance. Albert Einstein
education independent thinking
The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.
education school
Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.