Education Quotes

He worked with her as she was and not as he wanted her to be.

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

Experience is the opposite of education.

We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible.

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.

You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent.

education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.

All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.

The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.

[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.

Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.

I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.

I did get a degree in special education.

It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.

My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.

Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.

I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce.

The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.

The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.

As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light.

Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.

To conquer fear, you must become fear.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.

Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.

No education deserves the name unless it develops thought, unless it pierces down to the mysterious spiritual principle of mind, and starts that into activity and growth.

It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here.

I have a pilot called The Re-Education of Oliver Cooper starring the white kid from Project X where follows a black girl to a black university, like in Legally Blonde. I have so many fun projects.

I didn't go to film school. I just kept doing videos and whatever. So I guess I learned my education from just experience. Figuring out what worked and what didn't work.

I believe in local control of education.

My family is all lawyers. Most people when they come on shows like this, "I'm proud of the first member of my family to get a college education."

The communists have tried to corrupt our education system. They've tried to corrupt any number of institutions. Why wouldn't they try to corrupt the Catholic Church? It is a big enemy.

We wouldn't need any job training centers if our education was working in the first place.

A job training center is not gonna train anybody for the future. What trains somebody for the future is education and passion and desire.

The way to improve our schools is not more money, but the reintroduction of moral and spiritual values, as well as the four R's: reading, 'riting, 'rithmatic, and Rush.

Education is very important to my parents and to me.

I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.

I'm not just a politician, I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education.