Education Quotes - Page 117

The kid dead on the ground. Fourteen, Ash. Fourteen. I’m fourteen.” – Nick “Yeah…” – Acheron “Ash, I’m fourteen.” – Nick “Got it. You’re fourteen. I’m so proud you can count that high. It’s a testament to the modern American educational system. But I should probably point out that you’re not the only one. I’m told you go a school with a whole class of – get this – kids who are fourteen.” – Acheron

Men learn while they teach.

We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.

Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.

Having visited Oxfam-funded school programs in rural communities has made me realise how vital education is to developing countries in bringing people out of poverty and giving them a sense of dignity, self-worth and confidence.

I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs.

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

Study the processes and methods of those who are better at it than you... there's someone who knows something you don't, who has honed a skill more than you have. Rival your rival.

Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies learn from spontaneous, everyday events--the mailman at the door with a package to open...all of which need adult interpretation. They are real events of interest and concern to babies and young children....By contrast, infant education is artificial and out of context.

For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent.

Education confers humility, endows one with the authority to command, that will entitle one to affluence. With the help of charity and compassion this affluence can be made fruitful, and by this means, happiness in this world and peace in the next can be won.

The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation.

Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people.

True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other.

It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies.

Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.

A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in some form for industrial education. These two points should be insisted upon. Let the normal instruction be that men must earn their own living, and that by the labor of their hands as far as may be. This is the gospel of salvation for the colored man. Let the labor not be servile, but in manly occupations like that of the carpenter, the farmer, and the blacksmith.

I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties.

Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

Liberals will not let you improve the schools or the educational opportunities for poor people, because they want to maintain their teachers union status quo.

You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.

But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.

A community of people, that's the really what art school is.

It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.

Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.