Education Quotes

The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

Donald Trump hates the Common Core, created by governors and state education commissioners, and initially adopted by 45 states. [Betsy] DeVos has actually supported the Common Core until now.

Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.

A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

The essence of true education in one's life is to show the presence of mind, heart and soul to sense everything right.

An education is a more surefire guarantee that you have possibilities opened to you.

My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types.

The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.

Figuring out how to think about the problem.

Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

There is no other investment that has the kind of social multiplier effect that early education has. It is an incredible thing to nurture and watch grow and spread.

Good education has got to be good entertainment.

The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.

If we remain wedded to the way education is currently provided we cannot imagine other ways. We need some imagination, some fantasy, some new ways of thinking - some magic in fact.

Unlock your mind, unlock your mind. Throw off the fear, and let us fly.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

The value of a good education has never left me.

The biggest thing that I felt basketball could do for me was help me get a good education.

The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes.

You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

Getting your education is an advantage you have.

Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study - ourselves.

We always hate the school room where we learn hard lessons. But then we love it, because that's the school that taught us all we know, and gave us all the strength we have.

Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.

Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

Education for livelihood alone will never make our life full and complete.

I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.

Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education!

Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.

One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.

Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.

There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.