Quotes about education
education children mean
It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties. Alice Duer Miller
education business reading
I am always glad to think that my education was, for the most part, informal, and had not the slightest reference to a future business career. It left me free and untrammeled to approach my business problems without the limiting influence of specific training.
education want eighteen
I'm eighteen, and I don't know what I want. Alice Cooper
education female study
Scoring high in procreation, got an A studying female anatomy.
education dirty math
We cheated on our math tests, we carved some dirty words on the desk.
education stress boys
The boy's got problems, the boy's got stress, the boy's got a .38 hidden in his desk.
education teacher thinking
He thinks about his teacher in his literary class, he's staring at her legs.
education school forever
School's out forever, school's been blown to pieces.
education reading book
Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
education powerful writing
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
educational philosophy self
If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness. Albert Bandura
education remember
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. Annie Dillard
education school government
There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have been seen as the great leveler, the authentic melting pot. That, today, is nonsense. In his scathing study of the nation's public school system entitled "Savage Inequalities," Jonathan Kozol made manifest the truth: that we have a system that discriminates against the poor in everything from class size to curriculum. Anna Quindlen
education college swim
I went to a women's college. ... it was a little like learning to swim while holding on to the side of the pool; I didn't learn the arm movements until after I graduated, but by that time I was one hell of a kicker.
education heart mind
We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty. Angelina Grimke
educational humility garden
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. Alfred Austin
educational done students
Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students. Alfie Kohn
education skills willingness-to-learn
The willingness to learn new skills is very high. Angela Merkel
education reading writing
You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn. Amy Tan
education art latin
Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin. Alphonse Karr
education art two
The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science. Anthony Burgess
education talking should
All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about. Andy Rooney
education school things-in-life
When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.
education feet elderly
the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
educational america touching
Most of us are visual learners. Some of us are auditor learners – we learn by hearing. Many of us are kinesthetic learners. We learn by doing, touching, feeling. I have found … that we need an educational model that is current, that meets the need of our students. America must understand that she needs Muslims.
education real real-education
The only real education comes from what goes counter to you. Andre Gide
education law childhood
Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.
education teaching memorable
Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date. Ann Richards
education names good-education
A good education is another name for happiness. Ann Plato
education school mind
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind. Anatole France
education memories learning
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
education teaching illiterate-person
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. Alvin Toffler
education learning chinese
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb