Education Quotes - Page 51

Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, bonuses, subsidies, incentives, the progressive income tax, free education, the right to employment, the right to profit, the right to wages, the right to relief, the right to the tools of production, interest free credit, etc., etc. And it the aggregate of all these plans, in respect to what they have in common, legal plunder, that goes under the name of socialism.

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?

In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.

We can't live true to our set of values unless American educational system is strong. I really believe that if we don't get that right we will not compete because we won't believe that our people can compete, and we'll turn inward. We won't lead. That will be bad for the world.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

Crime is a social problem, and education is the only real deterrent. Look at all of us in prison; we were all truants and dropouts, a failure of the educational system. Look at your truancy problem, and you're looking at your future prisoners. Put the money there.

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.

Ive been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what weve done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution.