Education Quotes - Page 60

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Knowledge is not information, it's transformation.

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.

Make your customers comfortable and they will give you their lives.

Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

The education of youth, an employment of more consequence than making laws and preaching the gospel, because it lays the foundation on which both law and gospel rest for success.

Good roads, good houses, adequate electricity, good schools or good hospitals in the village are indeed, the parameters of progress. However, in my view, 100 percent literate village is the true symbol of real progress.

The wealth that increases by giving, That wealth is knowledge and is supreme of all possessions.

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.

It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work, her demand for personal rights, for political equality, for religious freedom and every step of kindred character has met with opposition from the church as a body and from the clergy as exponents of its views.

There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from 'audio-visual aids' - flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.

In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

The solution "cost me study that robbed me of rest for an entire night."

The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repair man's kids through college.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.