Education Quotes - Page 64

Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.

When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.

Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.

Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing.

Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder, is the people's lack of religious faith and the fact that they are uneducated.

Our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding and behavior of large portions of the youth population in the United States today.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!

I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. Im looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

There can be, therefore, no true education without moral culture, and no true moral culture without Christianity. The very power of the teacher in the school-room is either moral or it is a degrading force. But he can show the child no other moral basis for it than the Bible. Hence my argument is as perfect as clear. The teacher must be Christian. But the American Commonwealth has promised to have no religious character. Then it cannot be teacher.

Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build.

When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.

Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Training teaches how. Education teaches why.