Education Quotes

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.

Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression.

Financial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it's not just the rich kids that learn about money.. it's all of us.

Empathy before education.

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education.

My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home.

I think Common Core is a disaster. That doesn't mean there can't be a little tentacle left of the Department of Education, like 5 percent, just in terms of local coordination, perhaps.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn't stop until you get to school.

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.

Your education experience, talent intelligence, and financial situations don't matter. The important thing is the direction in which you focus your unique, powerful, creative mind

A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.

Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose.

I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters.

The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

The world exists for the education of each man.

I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer.

Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems.

Nothing would more effectively further the development of education than for all flogging pedagogues to learn to educate with the head instead of with the hand.

I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban' but the 'girl who fought for education. This is the cause to which I want to devote my life.

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.

Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy.

As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.

Education in a deepest sense has always been about doing rather than about knowing.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.

Education is such a noble profession, its a wonderful way to serve.

I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.

A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

Based upon the pictures, I concluded that about 60 percent of all college classes in the United States are held outside, underneath a tree, usually by a gently flowing stream.

Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

You have an advantage that neither education nor upbringing can buy - you have almost nothing. And therefore you have almost nothing to lose.

In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.

Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business.

The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

We do not need Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Education; we need a single Department of Skills that will promote an integrated approach to global competitiveness.