Education Quotes
As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem.
Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success.
Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.
Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival.
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education.
Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.
It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.
Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.
This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.
What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.
The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?
Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.
When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
...primarily the individual is going to study at home.
We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.
You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.
Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.
Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.
Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
Intuition is educated by experience and employed by curiosity.
One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.
I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.
Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.
Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.
Your mission statement says Galer Street is based on global "connectitude." (You people don't just think outside the box, you think outside the dictionary!)
Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Humanity is using both the lights. And education is developing that humanity.
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.
A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.
A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.
I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.
Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses because of their education.
I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?
Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the drawn curtains of conventional bias.
The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.
Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?
Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.
I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.
What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?
