Education Quotes - Page 93

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.

Nature is the best instructor.

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

It can be said that there are four basic and primary things that the mass of people in a society wish for: to live in a safe environment, to be able to work and provide for themselves, to have access to good public health and to have sound educational opportunities for their children.

Information can perhaps be useful as a support-stick and help you cross the way... but if you want to find your way in the darkness, only knowledge can forge that path for you... only knowledge.

The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.

When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.

.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted to put their children directly in touch with actual cases, teaching them not by hearsay but by actively assaying them, vigorously molding and forming them not merely by word and precept but chiefly by deeds and examples, so that wisdom should not be something which the soul knows but the soul's very essence and temperament, not something acquired but a natural property.

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.

It's not a competition, it's a doorway.

Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.

An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.

Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.