Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. H. Lawrence

He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process of building up, gradually, a complete unit of consciousness. And each unit of consciousness is the living unit of that great social, religious, philosophic idea towards which humankind, like an organism seeking its final form, is laboriously growing.

D. H. Lawrence

Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them.

D. H. Lawrence

We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

Clarence Darrow

To think is to differ.

Clarence Darrow

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

Danny Glover

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.

David Bach

Financial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it's not just the rich kids that learn about money.. it's all of us.

David Lodge

Four times, under our educational rules, the human pack is shuffled and cut - at eleven-plus, sixteen-plus, eighteen-plus and twenty-plus - and happy is he who comes top of the deck on each occasion, but especially the last. This is called Finals, the very name of which implies that nothing of importance can happen after it.

David Hawkins

You can memorize your way through a labyrinth if it is simple enough and you have the time and urge to escape. But the learning is of no use for the next time when the exit will be differently placed.

Confucius

Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.

Confucius

The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.

Confucius

Only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge. Being dissatisfied with his own knowledge, one then realizes that the trouble lies with himself, and realizing the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge one then feels stimulated to improve himself. Therefore, it is said, "the processes of teaching and learning stimulate one another."

Confucius

Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.

Confucius

Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

Confucius

Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.

Confucius

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it

Confucius

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Confucius

Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?

Confucius

Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.

Confucius

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

Confucius

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Daniel Webster

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

Andre Previn

If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you.

Ambrose Bierce

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Ambrose Bierce

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

Ambrose Bierce

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Alice Waters

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

Alice Walker

Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

Alice James

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Alice Miller

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

Alice Childress

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.