Quotes about education
education spiritual war
For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought? Virginia Gildersleeve
education real boys
It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense. William Cobbett
education teacher teaching
A teacher should be sparing of his smile. William Cowper
education children father
It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father. Vaughn Monroe
education hope new-york
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour. Vartan Gregorian
education thinking enlightenment
Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think. Van Morrison
education teacher father
No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.
education mother simple
My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment. Twyla Tharp
education littles formal
The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
educational giving friendly
Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly. Walt Disney
education hope learning
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
educational garden littles
The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows. Vita Sackville-West
education humble illiterate-person
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. Walt Whitman
education laughter inspiration
I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
education passion men
I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try the truth of any observation relating to the mind, the easiest method is to illustrate it by outward objects. If, for instance, a man was to sweat and labor all the days of his life to fill a chest which was already full, the absurdity of his vain endeavor would be glaring. In the same manner, when the human mind is filled and stuffed with notions brought thither by fallacious inclinations, there is no room for truth to enter: candor being banished, passions alone bear the sway. Sarah Fielding
education taken names
Little miss is taught by her mamma that she must never speak before she is spoken to. On this she sits bridling up her head, looking from one to the other, in hopes of being called to and addressed by the name of pretty miss.... But if this should not happen and no one should take any notice of her, she is ready to cry at the neglect. But should there be another miss in the room caressed and taken notice of whilst she is thus overlooked, it will be impossible for her to contain her tears, and blubbering is the word.
education self vanity
Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.
education mean priorities
We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it. Roger Scruton
education children home
Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents. Roger Moore
education teacher hurt
When we grew up and went to school There were certain teachers who would Hurt the children anyway they could By pouring their derision Upon anything we did And exposing every weakness However carefully hidden by the kids Roger Waters
education people effort
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity. Robert Trout
education football years
Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated. Robert M. Hutchins
education school democratic-ideals
It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.
education america six
It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.
education learning ideas
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
education teacher facts
Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.
education would-be looks
When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.
education teacher powerful
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
education-for-all best-education
The best education for the best is the best education for all.
education thinking mind
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.
education racism racist
Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education. Sargent Shriver
education needs caste-system
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
educational thinking goal
I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system.