Education Quotes - Page 14

EDUCATION, n. The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth while, depresses and crushes at the same time the spark of genius in the Negro by making him feel that his race does not amount to much and never will measure up to the standards of other peoples.

A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

Today our (Society of Jesus) prime educational objective must be to form men (and women) for others; men (and women) who will live not for themselves but for God and his Christ - for the God-man who lived and died for all the world; men (and women) who cannot even conceive of love of God which does not include love for the least of their neighbors; men (and women) completely convinced that love of God which does not issue in justice for others is a farce.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.