Education Quotes
Quotes about Education
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- “Public education is not broken. It is not failing or declining. The diagnosis is wrong, and the solutions of the corpora...” — Diane Ravitch, Reign Of Error: The Hoax Of The Privatization Movement And The Danger To America's Public Schools
- “A leader should always be open to criticism, not silencing dissent. Any leader who does not tolerate criticism from the ...” — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up And Salute The Sun: The Writings Of Suzy Kassem
- “The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The ...” — Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
- “Yusufu alikuwa hohehahe kabla na baada ya kuuzwa na nduguze kama mtumwa nchini Misri. Hakuwa na pesa, hakuwa na elimu, h...” — Enock Maregesi
- “Will this be in the examination, Mr Hecker?"was the limit of my students' interest in any given subject. If it was going...” — Tod Wodicka, All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner Of Things Shall Be Well
- “A Christian goes to college to discover his vocation - and to develop skills necessary to occupy a section of cultural, ...” — Jp Morelands
- “I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how tobecome a professional writer. I say to you, "...” — Kurt Vonnegut
- “People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot se...” — Samuel Johnson, The Life Of Samuel Johnson Including A Journal Of A Tour To The Hebrides, Vol 2
- “Thus, for those of us who make only a brief study of chemistry, the benefits to be expected are of an indirect nature. I...” — Horace G. Deming, General Chemistry: An Elementary Survey Emphasizing Industrial Applications Of Fundamental Principles
- “Equality, citizens, is not the whole of society on a level, a society of tall blades of grass and small oaks, or a numbe...” — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
- “I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or t...” — Charles Dickens, Bleak House
- “To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ."It is wonderful to have a terrific mi...” — Rafe Esquith, There Are No Shortcuts
- “But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He ...” — Carl Sagan, The Demon-haunted World: Science As A Candle In The Dark
- “I had not expected the gentle, tentative surge of gratitude I began to feel...for St. Paul's School, the spring, and the...” — Lorene Cary, Black Ice
- “He said, speaking more to himself than to me: 'It was knowledge I sought. Knowledge which is clean and pure, far above t...” — John Christopher, Beyond The Burning Lands
- “Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone should have one. Educ...” — Richard Mitchell, The Gift Of Fire
- “I'm not trying to tell you,"he said "that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's...” — J.d. Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye
- “They had studied law, information technology and art history as part of their beauty treatment, they had let Norwegian t...” — Jo Nesbø, Headhunters
- “In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greates...” — C.s. Lewis
- “All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember...” — Kurt Vonnegut
- “I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adolescence. The last thi...” — Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season
- “I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'll be sore when he se...” — John Steinbeck, The Grapes Of Wrath
- “To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was ...” — Bell Hooks
- “Thousands of persons, many of whom never darkened the door of a college, have learned to read books that most of our col...” — Stringfellow Barr
- “Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home...” — Greg Mortenson, Three Cups Of Tea: One Man's Mission To Promote Peace ... One School At A Time
- “Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the l...” — Richard Shaull, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed
- “Life is still better than University. In school, your teacher is the fruit picker and you are the open fruit basket. The...” — C. Joybell C.
- “A homeless man visited my store today. The few quarters that he had in his pocket he invested on books. I offered him fr...” — Besa Kosova, Raindrops
- “A child whose life is full of the threat and fear of punishment is locked into babyhood. There is no way for him to grow...” — John Holt
- “Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo, let’s offer schools a deal. Give them the res...” — Barack Obama
- “That's what education should be,"I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effectiv...” — Plato, The Republic
- “We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach...” — John Holt
- “He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him t...” — T.h. White, The Sword In The Stone
- “I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each...” — Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train: A Personal History Of Our Times
- “Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their ...” — Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys
- “A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic dete...” — Henry M. Wriston
- “Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surro...” — Tayeb Salih, Season Of Migration To The North
- “You squeeze the eyedropper, and a drop of pond water drips out onto the microscope stage. You look at the projected imag...” — Carl Sagan, The Demon-haunted World: Science As A Candle In The Dark
- “As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a scrap of paper with a ...” — Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up For Education And Was Shot By The Taliban
- “Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone,...” — Charlotte M. Mason
- “I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enl...” — Thomas Jefferson, Letters Of Thomas Jefferson
- “There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most w...” — Martin Gardner
- “It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natura...” — Alice Duer Miller
- “I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national...” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “part of the art of teaching is the ability to rearrange the world for students - to force them to see things in a new wa...” — Sunny Decker, An Empty Spoon
- “Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted t...” — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up And Salute The Sun: The Writings Of Suzy Kassem
- “There was a new simplicity to what I did, a door that had opened before me to worlds I had not imagined. From where I sa...” — Michael Johnston, In The Deep Heart's Core
- “What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that ...” — Kelly Gallagher, Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading And What You Can Do About It
- “For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against oth...” — John Dewey
- “Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. Aristotle speaks plainly to this purpose, sayin...” — John Adams, A Defence Of The Constitutions Of Government Of The United States Of America