Education Quotes - Page 25

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies. Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.

Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.

Social justice is what faces you in the morning. It is awakening in a house with adequate water supply, cooking facilities and sanitation. It is the ability to nourish your children and send them to school where their education not only equips them for employment but reinforces their knowledge and understanding of their cultural inheritance. It is the prospect of genuine employment and good health: a life of choices and opportunity, free from discrimination.

The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.

I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

You see it in schools all over... the concept that 'I'll be somewhat less than my best in order to make those around me feel more comfortable' is alive and well... I'm very keen that they understand that if they make themselves a little less than they can be, it is a one-way street to mediocrity.

Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention

The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

You cannot improve one thing by 1000% but you can improve 1000 little things by 1%.

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.