Education Quotes - Page 38

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

You can't unscramble eggs.

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.

I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or yet unborn.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential.

My act is very educational. I heard a man leaving the other night saying, 'Well that taught me a lesson.'

The aim of education is to guide young persons in the process through which they shape themselves as human persons-armed with knowledge, strength of judgment, and moral virtues-while at the same time conveying to them the spiritual heritage of the nation and the civilization in which they are involved.

Unless you have 100% customer satisfaction, you must improve.

Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to swim, you imitate what other people do with their hands and feet to keep their heads above water, and, finally, you learn to swim by practicing swimming. Trying to solve problems, you have to observe and to imitate what other people do when solving problems, and, finally, you learn to do problems by doing them.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality, the classroom is the place to start. Great teaching is about so much more than education; it is a daily fight for social justice.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.