Quotes about education
education moving school
I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. Black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel works Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden, which Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve, in harmony & peace. William Blake
education people grind
You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people. Wentworth Miller
education school life-learning
You can get all A's and still flunk life. Walker Percy
education giving imagination
An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind. Samuel Richardson
educational school opportunity
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families. William Glasser
educational school thinking
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
education teach
We learn... 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we both hear and see 70% of what is discussed 80% of what we experience personally 95% of what we teach to someone else
education haste forget
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. William Godwin
education cost needs
We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated. Walter Lippmann
educational party mean
A long dispute means both parties are wrong. Voltaire
education force
Nature has always had more force than education.
education wisdom book
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
education teaching learning
Education is knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and its knowing how to use the information you get. William Feather
education mean people
In ability choice education finance majorities people understanding voting A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to be one of the people. That means he must have the same superstitions, the same unbalanced prejudices, and the same lack of understanding of public finances that are characteristic of the majority. A better choice would be a candidate who has a closer understanding and a better education than the majority. Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability.
education memories learning
In education it isn't how much you have committed to memory or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know and it's knowing how to use the information you get.
education class half
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know. William Ralph Inge
education knowledge facts
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
education storytelling our-time
Science is the storytelling of our time. William Irwin Thompson
education teaching forgive-me
God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being. Walter Scott
education learning progress-of-society
Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind. Winston Churchill
education heart rome
I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. I scribbled all my opinions on the margins of the pages ... From Gibbon I went to Macauley. I had learnt The Lays of Ancient Rome by heart, and loved them; and of course I knew he had written a history; but I had never read a page of it ... I accepted all Macauley wrote as gospel, and I was grieved to read his harsh judgements upon the Great Duke of Marlborough.
education school two
How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.
education latin school
In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.
education littles firsts
It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced.
education country privilege
The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.
education teaching college
I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.
educational school home
How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.
education fighting political
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
educational taught unschooling
I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.
education mean second-best
Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best. William Lyon Phelps
education wall order
How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.
education college conservative
The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. Woodrow Wilson
educational acceptance hands
I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.