Education Quotes - Page 11

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

The Revolution won't happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and their political offices, transforming them slowly into Marxist entities as we move towards universal egalitarianism.

we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure that sectarian schooling does not convert education into a prison, rather than being a passport to the wide world.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning.

Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.