Quotes about education
education hate activity
I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
education endorse league strictly voter
The League does not endorse candidates. This is strictly voter education.
education teaching math
Most people...are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can't handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward. Edward de Bono
education men law
There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies. Henry Ward Beecher
education men race
A republican government is in a hundred points weaker than one that is autocratic; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed-it has educated a race of men that are men.
education war people
It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.
education school vices
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. Henry Fielding
education students prudence
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
education truth school
The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side.
education art inspiration
I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition. Gustave Courbet
education way life-is
If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it? Gordon Lightfoot
education saint speak
It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans. Gilbert K. Chesterton
education people purpose
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
education misled has-beens
By education most have been misled. John Dryden
education son common-sense
To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.
education thinking sheep
Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.
education purpose daily-life
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
education book answers
They read all the books, but they can't find the answers. John Mayer
education running real
I wanna run through the halls of my high school, I wanna scream at the top of my lungs. I just found out there's no such thing as the real world, just a lie you've got to rise above.
education economics indifferent
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. John Maynard Keynes
education laughter inspiration
Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
education lying escaping
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
education wise men
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. John Lubbock
education school learning
Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.
education teacher nature
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
education appreciation teacher
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
education knowledge two
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. John Locke
education truth philosophical
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
education careers years
When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years, then they expect you to pick a career. John Lennon
education clever hate
They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.
education ignorance taught
Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me. Jimmy Buffett
education mind bones
While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.
education college trying
They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.