Education Quotes - Page 18

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts pitching bricks and rocks at the student union- just imagine they are wearing brown shirts or white sheets- and act accordingly.

Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.

Everything having to do with human training and education has to be re-examined in light of neuroplasticity.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.

No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25 years of research show that reading aloud to a child is the oldest, cheapest and must successful method of instilling that desire. Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Seeking knowledge at an Young age is like engraving on a stone.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

No one has ever died, from an overexposure to education.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.