Education Quotes - Page 40

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build a lot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.

Education is the cornerstone of liberty.

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much.

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.

We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.

A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.

Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim, rather than to learn.

[It's] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.

The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Notable enough, however, are the controversies over the series 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ... whose sum was given by Leibniz as 1/2, although others disagree. ... Understanding of this question is to be sought in the word "sum"; this idea, if thus conceived - namely, the sum of a series is said to be that quantity to which it is brought closer as more terms of the series are taken - has relevance only for convergent series, and we should in general give up the idea of sum for divergent series.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.

The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.