Quotes about education
education mistake giving
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study. Woodrow Wilson
educational lying men
The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.
education book beer
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. Woody Allen
education school boys
I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw]. William Merritt Chase
education struggle kids
In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever. William J. Clinton
educational creativity responsibility
Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.
educational views ideas
To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions, or distinctions, or points of view. But while these special ideas are being added, the rest of your knowledge stands still, and only gradually will you line up your previous opinions with the novelties I am trying to instill, and to modify to some slight degree their mass. ..Your mind in such processes is strained, and sometimes painfully so, between its older beliefs and the novelties which experience brings along. William James
educational philosophy men
The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes connected with the fortunes of the self, it forthwith becomes an interesting thing.
educational philosophy emotional
An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.
educational philosophy literature
It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
educational philosophy science
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.
educational philosophy men
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life
educational philosophy ideas
If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when you begin to talk. That something can consist in nothing but a previous lot of ideas already interesting in themselves, and of such a nature that the incoming novel objects which you present can dovetail into them and form with them some kind of a logically associated or systematic whole.
educational philosophy thinking
Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.
educational philosophy ideas
Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively.
educational philosophy ideas
Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness.
educational philosophy order
In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at one age, and other kinds of conception at a later age.
educational philosophy interesting
All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less the kind of attention requiring effort is appealed to; the more smoothly and pleasantly the classroom work goes on.
education teacher important
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
educational philosophy feelings
There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life.
education philosophical carpe-diem
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
educational philosophy book
Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.
education enemy allies
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
education men woe
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn. Will Durant
education knowledge eye
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
education civilization transmission
Education is the transmission of civilization.
education money land
For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent. Samuel Foote
educational believe support
I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that. Samuel Dash
education teaching men
He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything. Samuel Butler
educational america giving
If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational. Salma Hayek
education lying aids-day
Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me. Ryan White
educational people important
It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives Rudolf Steiner
education people needs
Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.