Education Quotes
A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.
Creativity is especially expressed in the ability to make connections, to make associations, to turn things around and express them in a new way.
The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.
A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.
But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err.
Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.
In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.
Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.
If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.
Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.
Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.
Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential.
These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.
Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.
I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.
Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.
As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.