Education Quotes - Page 53

The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.

All of the factors that make up a quality city - safe streets, high paying jobs, strong neighborhoods, etc. - emanate from a strong educational premise.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

Shared leadership... is less like a an orchestra, where the conductor is always in charge, and more like a jazz band, where leadership is passed around ... depending on what the music demands at the moment and who feels most moved by the spirit to express the music.

Education and knowledge are the power of the minorities in this country

When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

Today's students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.

And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.