Education Quotes - Page 19

If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.

Now I will have less distraction.

The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.

Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.

I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future.

I have spent my adult life trying to figure out why parents and society put themselves into a race -- what's the hurry? I keep trying to convey the pleasure every parent and teacher could feel while observing, appreciating and enjoying what the infant is doing. This attitude would change our educational climate from worry to joy.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information.

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.

Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

A goal of education is. to assist growth toward greater complexity and integration and to assist in the process of self-organization - to modify individuals capacity to modify themselves.

Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits. An association of music and math has, in fact, long been noted. Creating and performing music promotes self-expression and provides self-gratification while giving pleasure to others. In medicine, increasing published reports demonstrate that music has a healing effect on patients. For all these reasons, it deserves strong support in our educational system, along with the other arts, the sciences, and athletics.

Young children are unlikely to have their self-esteem strengthened from excessive praise or flattery. On the contrary, it may raise some doubts in children; many children can see through flattery and may even dismiss an adult who heaps on praise as a poor source of support-one who is not very believable.

For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.

We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.