Education Quotes - Page 24

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training.

But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to find the integral of a given differential. Moreover, sometimes we cannot say with certainty whether the integral of a given quantity can be found or not.

One customer well taken care of could be more valuable than $10,000 worth of advertising.

Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.

Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.

We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

The most successful educational approach to the Negro is throgh a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the Minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite.