Education Quotes - Page 50

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

A meritocracy is a system in which the people who are the luckiest in their health and genetic endowment; luckiest in terms of family support, encouragement and, probably, income; luckiest in their educational and career opportunities; and luckiest in so many other ways difficult to enumerate - these are the folks who reap the largest rewards.

To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.

The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.

Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.

I went from a D all the way to an A plus, I tell you prayer changes things.

Jamaica is more than just the 'brand' the world recognizes so well; it's a place of pride for the people who live here, its educational institutions, its sports achievements, its science and technology growth.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does 'just for fun' and things that are 'educational.' The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.

If you had to explain America's economic success with one word, that word would be "education".... Until now, the results of educational neglect have been gradual - a slow-motion erosion of America's relative position. But things are about to get much worse, as the economic crisis ... deals a severe blow to education across the board.... We need to wake up and realize that one of the keys to our nation's historic success is now a wasting asset. Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process.

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

As the years progress, what women and men will discover is that the most lasting and rewarding educational experiences come not from specific information provided in classroom lectures or assigned textbooks, but from the values obtained in active engagement in meaningful issues. We achieve for ourselves only as we appreciate the problems and concerns of others-and only as we see our own lives as part of a much greater social purpose.

The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and subtlety far exceeding anything of the kind achieved by the Inquisition; to the point that to believe today in a miraculous happening like the Virgin Birth is to appear a kind of imbecile.

Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature may differ most profoundly.

Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be incorporated into a task that is necessary and relevant.

Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development.

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.