Education Quotes - Page 26

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

You gave us power in our words, so I think before I speak, and that way when I speak, they know I'm here to teach.

"Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference"

The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and thy're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth

The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool.

Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.

The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.

Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.

Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but to the earth. It is time now for reason, education and science to take over.

you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.

I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

‎A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.