Education Quotes - Page 93

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.""And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.""And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

Stanley Kubrick

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson

Formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Theodore Roosevelt

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.

Steven Spielberg

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Aristotle

Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

Khaled Hosseini

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Leonardo da Vinci

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Margaret Atwood

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

Charlotte Brontë

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

G.K. Chesterton

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

Augustine of Hippo

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Walter Cronkite

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

In academics, an excellent result without personal effort is a copied work

Failure doesn't Teach us!Learning from it, is our Choice.

Vineet Raj Kapoor

Education attainment is a kind of achievement that nobody can seize from us as the assets we own in our regular lives because we earned it with the use of our own knowledge and creativity.

Without failure, there is no success.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Every great endeavour is fueled by great enthusiasm.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The educators pride of their profession opens the space to more giving that knows no limitation, and it is a demand that is forced by things nature, and a logic that is required by the profession reality to every organization that wants success and chooses winning by making sure that all of their employees has this effective spirit.

Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

If you stop learning, you forget what you ready know.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you don’t know your tendencies and can’t analyze when you are most effective, then how can you get the most done in the least amount of time with the best results?

Learning, empowering, studying, practicing, and not repeating the same mistakes will help you move forward, move up, and move on to where you want to be.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Behind a life of influence you will find a masterful storyteller.

Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.

The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.

Our knowledge is limited. However, reading augments our knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Textbook intelligence is not true intelligence. It only marks a man good at memorization.

Curiosity is the great motivator of an education. It’s the how of learning: how we go from not knowing something to knowing it inside and out.

An epistemic methodology that sees the pursuit of knowledge as entirely congruent with the search for power is a great deal more cunning than wise. It can needlessly undermine the value of knowledge in satisfying curiosity and interest it significantly weakens one of the profound characteristics of human beings.

A walk with nature awakens the mind of creativity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If we knew what is already there, there will be no need for research.

Lailah Gifty Akita

In the pursuit of knowledge, we know God, the source of knowledge and wisdom.

Lailah Gifty Akita

How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information.

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