Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas A. Edison

Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

Thomas A. Edison

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

Joseph de Maistre

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

Leonard Cohen

This mental space is occupied and everything is mine.

John Katzman

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.

John Kenneth Galbraith

My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

John Kenneth Galbraith

People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

Lionel Richie

When will we ever learn, there's nowhere else we can turn.

Linda Ronstadt

My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.

Leon Botstein

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

Peter Brimelow

Theres no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and thats allocated according to political muscle.

Phyllis Bottome

In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a rudimentary grasp of religion, sex, and money. Without a basic knowledge of these three primary facts in a normal human being's life --subjects which stir the emotions, create events and opportunities, and if they do not wholly decide must greatly influence an individual's personality --no human being's education can have a safe foundation.

Rabindranath Tagore

We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.

Rabindranath Tagore

A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

Plato

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

Joshua Waitzkin

We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.

A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective will of the international community to ensure that the necessary support is forthcoming.

Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.

International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere

It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if so many remain without the basic tools of literacy?

Kofi Annan

On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that both are critical for achieving truly sustainable development for all.

Kofi Annan

Young people - with their dynamism, their energy and their inherent understanding of our interconnected world - have much to teach us. Increased educational attainment, advances in technology and the spread of information have made this generation the best educated, most connected and most informed in history

Kofi Annan

Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.

Kofi Annan

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Kelly Miller

Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.

Kathleen Sebelius

I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.

Ralph Ellison

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly; that, in their playgrounds, courage is universally admired, meanness despised, manly feelings and generous conduct are encouraged: that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank, and to the child of upstart wealth an even-handed justice, purges their nonsense out of both, and does all that can be done to make them gentlemen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.