Education Quotes - Page 81

Never was a gangsta, till I graduated to one.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

Numerical precision is the very soul of science.

I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

I was x years old in the year x2.

Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest should arise out of the studies themselves. We have bred a generation that cannot digest anything intellectual but tablets of peptonized food. One sees that in the popular papers with their brevity, still increasing in brevity as far as brevity can increase, and in the capacity for thought of our rulers.

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.