Education Quotes - Page 82

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

I loathed every day and regret every moment I spent in a school.

Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information.

The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them a solid education which might enable them, when become mothers, to educate their own daughters, and even to direct the course for sons, should their fathers be.

IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

The thing is, autism is all different, you know, variables. And you start out with a certain amount of, you know, the point where the differences in the brain are going to just be a personality variant and, like, for very mild Asperger's. But you get into more severe kinds of autism where there's obvious speech delay, obvious abnormal behavior in a two and three-year-old child, you know, the initial neurology is different from case to case. But all children with autism are going to do better if they get really good educational intervention.

The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.

Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst qualities of the parents.

Those of us who have the duty of training the rising generation of doctors...must not inseminate the virgin minds of the young with the tares of our own fads. It is for this reason that it is easily possible for teaching to be too 'up to date'. It is always well, before handing the cup of knowledge to the young, to wait until the froth has settled.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

When learning is recognized in the fabric of life and encouraged, when families make their decisions based on what leads to more interesting and educational ends, children learn without effort, often without even knowing it, and parents learn along with them.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

The cultivation of Love is the greatest need today.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

We developed at the local school district level probably the best public school system in the world. Or it was until the Federal government added Federal interference to Federal financial aid and eroded educational quality in the process.

I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself

Asking Wall Street to provide financial education is the same as asking a fox to raise your chickens.

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.