Education Quotes - Page 62

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.

Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to reevaluation of counting as a method of getting from one to ten. Students are taught advanced concepts of Boolean algebra, and formerly unsolvable equations are dealt with by threats of reprisals.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.

The present syllabus in our high schools corresponds almost exactly to what was known in 1640.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

We know that many boys and girls leave school because of poverty, because they have to work. However, there are an important number of children who abandon their studies because of the abuses they're subject to by teachers and their own parents.

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

Education today does not impart to the students the capacity or grit to face the challenges of daily life. The educational field has become the playing ground of ignorance.

Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.

In the world of entrepreneurs, you don't need a college education. You need a proper education.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

Only through communication can human life hold meaning.

The quality of education today decides the tomorrow of Gujarat... Government may build schools, but the future can be built by the schools only. The key responsibility of building Gujarat's tomorrow thus lies with the schools.

Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs. In the United States, taxpayers spend almost $600 billion annually on public education, so it's not unreasonable to ask what all that money is producing. In fact, it's irresponsible not to know.

Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.