Education Quotes - Page 12

The discovery of electrical waves... has had a profound influence on civilization; it has been instrumental in providing the methods which may bring all inhabitants of the world within hearing distance of each other and has potentialities social, educational and political which we are only beginning to realize.

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live.

All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions-and society-so that the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our passion for justice, and our love of freedom.

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.