Education Quotes - Page 85

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

Don Keough's (CEO Coca-Cola) 11 Rules on "HOW TO LOSE": 1. Stop taking risks 2. Be content 3. Never deviate from what the founder did 4. Be inflexible 5. Rely totally on research and experts 6. Concentrate on competitors instead of your customers 7. Put yourself - not the customer - first 8. Solve administrative concerns first 9. Let others do your thinking for example, headquarters 10. Rely on T-G-E: "That's Good Enough" and T-N-M-J: "That's Not My Job!" 11. Rationalize slow growth

Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice.

I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.

It is no longer higher education, it is higher 'indoctrination '

The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.

I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.

People rarely die from heroin alone, it's the combination that's deadly. Maybe we should blast that out as a public health education message. That way at least we're keeping people safe.

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright.

It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.

'I don't know' has become 'I don't know yet'.

Every person in this country who has the desire and ability should be able to get all the education they need regardless of the income of their family. This is not a radical idea. In Germany, Scandinavia and many other countries, higher education is either free or very inexpensive. We must do the same.

The essence of education is the education of the body.

Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.

The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.