Education Quotes - Page 118

All education must be self-education.

Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.

The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

Can we really be friends with those who don't love the books that we do? Of course we can, but can we really be friends with those who don't love any books? I'm not so sure of that.

Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

Skill to do comes of doing.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world a better place.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the measures for promotion and demotion from one class to another are carried out. Above all they must maintain the educational system unchanged; for on education everything else depends, and it is an illusion to imagine that mere legislation without it can effect anything of consequence.