Quotes about education
education artist generations
Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant. Eric Fischl
education personality wish
Predigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their own personalities and their original sense of judgment ... Emma Goldman
education mind accepting
All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
education men divergent
A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels. John Jay Chapman
educational school independent
I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system. John Hume
education kids ties
He was the kind of kid you did not want to sit by. He kept his boogers in his desk, he wore a neck tie. John Hiatt
education clothes noses
I am the student who picks his nose, so come over here and take off your clothes.
education teacher teaching
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson. John Henrik Clarke
education powerful people
Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
educational garden satisfaction
Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity. John Evelyn
education children thinking
The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that, while seated on the lavatory, waiting in doctors' surgeries, on stationary trains or watching interviews with politicians, they may have something interesting to think about. John Mortimer
education noble green
I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. John Milton
education learning australia
The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education. John Monash
educational facts reason-why
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials. John Dewey
educational believe progress
I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
education future learning
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
education capacity process
The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.
education law soul
There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is dead and buried. There is no room for fixed and natural law or permanent moral absolutes.
education successful government
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect and who obey their governors are educated. Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.
education teaching thinking
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
education teacher thinking
The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.
education teacher thinking
One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.
education teaching order
Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and of ideas. This condition is satisfied only as the educator views teaching and learning as a continuous process of reconstruction of experience.
educational struggle school
Various epochs of the past have had their own characteristic struggles and interests. Each of these great epochs has left behind itself a kind of cultural deposit, like a geologic stratum. These deposits have found their way into educational institutions in the form of studies, distinct courses of study, distinct types of schools.
education growth literacy
The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth
education successful government
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect . . . their governors are educated.
education science reality
Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.
educational philosophy growth
Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.
education children believe
I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated that will be most effective in bringing the child to share in the inherited resources of the race, and to use his own powers for social ends. I believe that education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
education principles authority
Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.
education truth thinking
Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.
educational kind problem
The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.
education school organization
Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.