Education Quotes - Page 45

As a college coach, I felt you could make a difference in a player's life. There was an educational aspect I thought was important.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.

Nothing is impossible for pure love.

I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.

Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always had great difficulty-since the initiation of the Fulbright scholarships in 1946-in trying to find the words that would persuasively explain that educational exchange is not merely one of those nice but marginal activities in which we engage in international affairs, but rather, from the standpoint of future world peace and order, probably the most important and potentially rewarding of our foreign-policy activities.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch.

You see, we'll never be able to compete in the 21st century unless we have an education system that doesn't quit on children, an education system that raises standards, an education that makes sure there's excellence in every classroom.

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

No one can take it away from you.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

Home is where one starts from.

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing in biological, political, and socioeconomic fairy tales) as long as possible ... that students should be given the best possible maps of the territories of experience in order that they may be prepared for life, is not as popular as might be assumed.

My position is this – street soccer is the most natural educational system that can be found

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.