Education Quotes - Page 100

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.

The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap between the sheer weight of the textbooks that he carries home from school and his capacity to interpret what is in them.

I like things that are educational and educational. I like things that are inspirational.

Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

You know, my father was a great encouragement for me because he spoke out for women's rights, he spoke out for girl's education. And at that time I said that why should I wait for someone else, why should I be looking to the government, to the army that they would help us? Why don't I raise my voice, why don't we speak up for our rights?

Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business.

Education is all paint - it does not alter the nature of the wood that lies under it, it only improves its appearance a little. Why I dislike education so much is, that it makes all people alike, until you have examined into them; and it sometimes is so long before you get to see under the varnish!

Learn your past, find your path.

It has been said that the primary function of schools is to impart enough facts to make children stop asking questions. Some, with whom the schools do not succeed, become scientists... and I never stopped asking questions.

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

The economic borderlines of our world will not be drawn between countries, but around Economic Domains. Along the twin paths of globalization and decentralization, the economic pieces of the future are being assembled in a new way. Not what is produced by a country or in a country will be of importance, but the production within global Economic Domains, measured as Gross Domain Products. The global market demands a global sharing of talent. The consequence is Mass Customization of Talent and education as the number one economic priority for all countries

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

He was the kind of kid you did not want to sit by. He kept his boogers in his desk, he wore a neck tie.

Love is love's reward.