Education Quotes - Page 23

The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.

Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

If life ever ceased to be an educational experience. I probably wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.