Education Quotes - Page 16

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.

There is no education like adversity.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.

In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly to give me private lessons; but he gave me much more valuable advice to start reading more difficult mathematical books on my own and to study them as diligently as I could; if I came across some obstacle or difficulty, I was given permission to visit him freely every Sunday afternoon and he kindly explained to me everything I could not understand.

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected. All that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.