Education Quotes - Page 22

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art.

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

Now more people are doing work that requires individual decision-making and problem-solving, and we need an educational system that will help develop those skills.

Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for stars.

My future is righteousness.

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.