Education Quotes

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

That should be the goal, is that every kid in every neighborhood, despite whatever challenges they may face, are getting a great education in our public schools.

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

I recognize the lion by his paw.

If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

One can succeed at almost anything for which he has enthusiasm.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.

If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids, who care about what they teach, and who can communicate with kids.

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.

Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Real education should enable one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible.

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?

God has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

Wise and purposeful letting alone is the best part of education.

Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!

Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage

We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer

There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

The beginning of every government starts with the education of our youth.

Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.

You have to be eligible for luck to strike, and I think that's a matter of education and preparation, and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.

In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it.