Education Quotes - Page 42

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

A good education teaches you how to ask a question. It’s knowing what you don’t know; the skills of critical thought.

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.

True education consists in the cultivation of the heart.

There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it does not cause certainty nor remove doubts that the mind may rest in truth, unless this is provided by experience.

To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports; among which is the information of the people. In no country, is education so general - in no country, have the body of the people such a knowledge of the rights of men and the principles of government. This knowledge, joined with a keen sense of liberty and a watchful jealousy, will guard our constitutions and awaken the people to an instantaneous resistance of encroachments.

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it to the science and art of many societies.

It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all.

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life.

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.