Educational Quotes

My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.

'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.

Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more.

There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers.

Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood)

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.

We have very close humanitarian contacts [with China], wide-ranging youth exchanges, educational and regional contacts, and all of them continue to develop.

If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree.

I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.

An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the associations; and, second, on their number.

It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association

An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.

Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively.

Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness.

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life

Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.

Obviously I think politics is interesting and important and educational.

Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay. Education provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income and an enhanced quality of life.

It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women.

Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.

Our problems don’t stem from our ignorance so much as our disobedience of that which we know to be right.

It is not enought to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

The day is ours, and what the day has shown.

Education is not to be viewed as something like filling a vessel with water but, rather, assisting a flower to grow in its own way

We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.

You can be an expert any field of study with consistent effort and consistent learning.

There is a system alright, but the actual element of education has long gone.

Books may be the most valuable treasure of knowledge, but it is the human mind, that turns that knowledge into wisdom.

Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.

The flow of knowledge towards the mind should be moderated by the faculties of the mind itself, based on the acceptability of nothing but the mind.

All systems of the society are meant to serve the mind, not the mind to serve the systems.

We are capable of learning.

Keep learning, keep learning!

Education is the best gift my parent gave me.

My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah said 'Educating the child is everybody's business.

we are all born educated, but we need education to be educated

So many books to read, will I ever finish reading?

The more you learn, the more you want to learn.

If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world.

Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life.

All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems.

Real education leads to the liberation of the mind.

Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception.

There is nothing to be gained by pretending that academic involvement is necessary, or even always desirable, in the quest for truth and knowledge.

The purpose of education should be character-building.

Education is a relentless voyage of discovery.