Education Quotes - Page 28

Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.

Education is the mother of leadership.

There's a tendency to make jazzy educational software that's very uniform and therefore just like school. I'd like to see a company develop software for rebellious kids who don't want to go to school.

The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.

It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the sciences but may implant in the minds of the American youth the principles of virtue and of liberty and inspire them with just and liberal ideas of government and with an inviolable attachment to their own country.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class structure in stone by dividing children into classes and setting them against one another; and has been midwife to an alarming concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a fraction of the national community.

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having primary schools nearby that educate children, free of charge... It means building a world fit for children, where every child can grow to adulthood in health, peace and dignity.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.

Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.

Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.