Education Quotes - Page 4

Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.

We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future - you create the future. The future is created through hard work.

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.

When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.

The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development.

I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in the school to impose certain ideas or to form certain habits in the child, but is there as a member of the community to select the influences which shall affect the child and to assist him in properly responding to these influences.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.

The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black. This is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.