Education Quotes - Page 97

You don't want the United States to become South America, where you have a super collection of rich people at the tippy-top of society, they are surrounded by barbed wire living in McMansions with security guards, and the rest of the society is suffering, and you've got a broken educational system and a broken government.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side."

School's out forever, school's been blown to pieces.

Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.

Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect's mind.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.

By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

I marveled a bit at the feat Lubianka re-education. I also began to understand more clearly what was meant by rewriting history for the proletariat and how it could be arranged that young people would hear nothing whatsoever of God.

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop the skills and discipline required to produce a coherent analysis, based on logic and evidence. The implications of having so many people so incapable of confronting opposing arguments with anything besides ad hominem responses reach far.

They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.

I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.