Education Quotes - Page 127

Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is far more than knowing how to make a living or how to land on the moon. Preparing for life means building personal integrity, developing a sound sense of values, increasing the capacity and willingness to serve. Education must have its roots in moral principles. If we lose sight of that fact in our attempt to match our educational system against that of the materialists, we shall have lost far more than we could possibly gain.

We hear a lot of talk these days about teaching values in higher education. Frankly, I am not sure this can be accomplished through a separate course in morality or ethics. I am convinced, however, that values are sustained on campus by the honesty of our words, and by the confidence we have in the words of others.

Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.

To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!

I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.

A form of self-delusion.

Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.

One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren't sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education.

Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.

It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.

Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.

Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.

Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill is daily spun, But there exists no loom to weave it into fabric.

As Christian feel the changing winds of political climate, the blasts against their values in the media, the exclusion of the Christian faith from educational institutions, they begin to sense the dangers of complacency and of pietistical world flight.

The atmosphere [in the school lunchroom] is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under the frowning scrutiny of teachers standing around on duty, during their meal-they are not supposed to talk while standing in line, though this rule is only sporadically enforced.

About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.

The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.

The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.