Educational Quotes - Page 7

Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four thousand dollars a year, the least educational attainment, the highest tuberculosis rate, and the highest proportion of substandard housing ... That neighborhood was called Chinatown. Yet, in 1965, there were only five persons of Chinese ancestry committed to prison in the entire state of California.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression, nor encourage their unique abilities.

When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.

Inspiration, hunger: these are the qualities that drive good schools. The best we educational planners can do is to create the most likely conditions for them to flourish, and then get out of their way.

THE BIGGEST TEST FOR PARENTS IS NOT HOW THEY PARENT, BUT HOW THEY RESPOND TO DISORDER AND UNPREDICTABILITY

Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first.

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.

The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives

Ones vision is not a road map but a compass.

Governments can enhance growth by increasing inclusiveness. A country's most valuable resource is its people. So it is essential to ensure that everyone can live up to their potential, which requires educational opportunities for all.

Map out your future, but do it in pencil.

If anything goes wrong, the customer doesn't care whose fault it is. He's the one who's going to suffer anyway.

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.

For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.