Education Quotes - Page 13

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but treating them well and with respect seems the least we could do, and with 'we' I mean not just zoo staff, but most certainly also the public.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners who are leading the fight for justice and better race relations in these crucial days

Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on earth. According to the United Nations' Human Development Report (2005), they are also the healthiest, as indicated by life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate, and infant mortality. . . . Conversely, the fifty nations now ranked lowest in terms of the United Nations' human development index are unwaveringly religious.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

But do let me reiterate the spirit of Michigan. It is based upon a deathless loyalty to Michigan and all her ways; an enthusiasm that makes it second nature for Michigan men to spread the gospel of their university to the world's distant outposts; a conviction that nowhere is there a better university, in any way, than this Michigan of ours.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

New facts often trigger new ideas

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.