Education Quotes - Page 30

Whoever wants to understand much must play much.

My advice for achieving success is to make a career choice that reflects your passion. Then work your craft a little bit each day - even if someone's not paying you to do it. Try to balance your social life with your educational (or professional) life, and have patience.

Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education.

And believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with the mathematical sciences, which proceed very cautiously and admit nothing as established until it has been rigorously demonstrated.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

If you wonder what getting and keeping the right employees has to do with getting and keeping the right customers, the answer is everything.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children.

It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they constitute or control, will go to destruction. Consequently, when a state resolves that religious instruction shall be banished from the schools and other literary institutions, it virtually resolves on self-destruction.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming almost generally true, it is spiritually unsafe to attend public schools. Look back over the history of education to the turn of the century and the beginning of the educational philosophies, pragmatism and humanism were the early ones, and they branched out into a number of other philosophies which have led us now into a circumstance where our schools are producing the problems that we face.

Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continually threatened with burial by the shifting sand. The hands of service must ever be at work, in order that the marble continue to lastingly shine in the sun. To these serving hands mine shall also belong.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.