Education Quotes - Page 65

If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'

For every studen with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.

It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are, through the defects of our society and our educational system, un-available to us without such drugs.

There are two roadblocks in the way of transforming India into an economic giant and one of them was education. I believe that if education is privatised at primary and secondary level, lot of our problems will be answered to

There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.

Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.

Don't set your wit against a child.

People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

When I was at school you got an overall general education, on many things, even just basic facts.

The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.

Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly a democracy without classes. To do so will require the efforts of us all-teachers, administrators, taxpayers and statesmen. Education is a social process, perhaps the most important process in determining the future of our country; it should command a far larger portion of our national income than it does today.

Customers don't always know what they want. The decline in coffee-drinking was due to the fact that most of the coffee people bought was stale and they weren't enjoying it. Once they tasted ours and experienced what we call "the third place" ... a gathering place between home and work where they were treated with respect.. they found we were filling a need they didn't know they had.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

In elementary school, many a true word is spoken in guess.