Education Quotes

The task of all Christian scholarship—not just biblical studies—is to study reality as a manifestati...

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as t...

Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'l...

Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane," he [Ed Ricketts] said. "And children know it to...

All that has been said of the importance of individuality of character, and diversity in opinions an...

It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being...

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So t...

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15,...

John Milton called his school Christ College 'a stony-hearted stepmother'. The ultimate goal of th...

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his ...

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowe...

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because the...

By what route the infant Hansen found his way to the Jesuits, the file did not relate. Perhaps the m...

Unless men may come to a reasonable, solid persuasion and conviction of the truth of the gospel, by ...

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning ...

The philosopher Edmund Pincoffs has argued that consequentialists and deontologists worked together ...

We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow ...

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pi...

He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult pas...

What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're get...

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

How to teach again what has been taught correctly it incorrectly 1000 thousand times, throughout the...

The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of ...

Preparation for the future was necessary, and he was willing to admit that the great change would pe...

Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Artists and intellectuals are not he same animal. This causes a great deal of confusion. Our schools...

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right t...

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches...

Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.

Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the mo...

Unless there is some kind of spiritual revolution that can keep abreast of our technological genius,...

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shal...

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

Defining by a general law the expenditures on the...school....is a very different thing from appoint...

I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don'...

I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?

I wasn't going to great schools, because my parents didn't believe in public education. They wanted ...

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the chur...

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe ...

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions.

We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and ou...

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for th...

We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, whic...

Revolutions are defined not only by the ideas that drive them but by the scale of their impact.

Whatever your aptitudes, the greatest source of achievement is passion. Aptitude matters, but passio...

The mistake that many policymakers make is to believe that in education the best way to face the fut...

The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to ...

Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmoth...

Health care and education are too important NOT to be left to the free market.

These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indi...

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, educa...

I see you've confused what you're learning in school with actual education.

education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily edu...

When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care ...

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every societ...

The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. ...

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the B...

I quickly learned, however, that a university education is not a prerequisite to reading Shakespeare...

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make...

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand ther...

I won't say ours was a tough school but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What ...

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, u...

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of al...

I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish,...

Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they c...

I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many differ...

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no s...

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions t...

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but ma...

Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us ...

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does ...

The biological equipment of a man rigidly restricts the field in which he can serve.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over...

I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was...

I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good educat...

Derisively, Ronan said, 'No. The ancient Greeks didn't have a word for Blue.'Everyone at the table l...

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from ...

I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the ...

People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the wo...

With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

We were learning to struggle. And we were learning how powerful we are when we speak.

I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill...

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot su...

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid ...

I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.

THough we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to st...