Education Quotes - Page 20

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school. I didn't know what the point was. The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy.

The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.

Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

That's at the core of equity: understanding who your kids are and how to meet their needs. You are still focused on outcomes, but the path to get there may not be the same for each one.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.

To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students.

Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Great minds think for themselves.

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

And when it comes to developing the high standards we need, it's time to stop working against our teachers and start working with them. Teachers don't go in to education to get rich. They don't go in to education because they don't believe in their children. They want their children to succeed, but we've got to give them the tools. Invest in early childhood education. Invest in our teachers and our children will succeed.

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.