Education Quotes - Page 71

A greater national focus on the criticality of educational equity is needed in order to mobilize the masses and invite everyone to be a part of the solution. Only when every person on the street realizes the role she can play in this movement, can we begin to change the conversations around education.

Let's face it: Serious self-scrutiny has not been one of our notable characteristics. We are far more aware of what we want to change in others than we are of how we need to change. Salvation for our educational ills is only secondarily "out there." Primarily it will have to come from within an educational community willing to say that we have met the enemy and it is us.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.

Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful.

They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, Logical, oh responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical...

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.

[Our children] have been taken away from us by the psychiatric mental-health system. They've been taken away by the educational system, by the government, and by many different forces.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that person to be absolutely incompetent, assuming a posture of disdain from my own position of false superiority.

Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

David Langford, illustrates the difference between teaching and learning in a little story. He says, 'You know, last Wednesday I taught my dog to whistle. I really did. I taught him to whistle. It was hard work. I really went at it very hard. But I taught him to whistle. Of course, he didn't learn, but I taught.'

The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize that the cornerstone of education is the development of the human personality, and that in this regard education is of immediate importance for the salvation of mankind.