Education Quotes - Page 10

• The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

  Oscar Wilde

  Graduation, Time, Teaching

  Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Sebastian Melmoth

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• Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

  Laurence J. Peter

  School, Prejudice, Method

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• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  Gail Godwin

  Inspirational, Thank You, Teacher

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• Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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• No one can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Teacher, Knowledge, Learning

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• I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

  Carl Sagan

  School, Learning, College

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.46, Ballantine Books

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• One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Priests, Good School, Thousand

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1883). “Popular edition of col. Ingersoll's lectures. (Freethought publ. co.'s ed.).”

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• I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, People, Library

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mignon McCarthy (1990). “Kareem”, Random House Incorporated

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• Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

  Neil Postman

  Children, Reading, Writing

  Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.70, Vintage

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• Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

  Alvin Toffler

  Learning, Chinese, Students

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• A form of self-delusion.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Self, Form, Delusion

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

  Oscar Wilde

  Rogues, Process

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• Learn to think continentally.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Thinking, Political, Politics

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• We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added new conquests to our domain in that incessant contest with nature which means life. But we are decadent heirs if we cannot use the instruments that the ages have put into our hands. The acquisition of these, in the largest scope, is education.

  Arthur Lynch

  Mean, Hands, Age

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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• Each book first begins with a little idea.

  Dick Bruna

  Book, Ideas, Littles

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• The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.

  Jonathan Alter

  Teaching, Keys, Fixing

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• I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

  Larry Hagman

  Book, Writing, Sells

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• A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

  Tom Stoppard

  Men, Genuine Love, Two

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “The Invention of Love”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.

  Tom Stoppard

  Favour, University

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Invention of Love”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.

  Patricia Schroeder

  College, College Education, American Family

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• Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves.

  Edward Hirsch

  School, People, Style

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• In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Paint, Glad

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• Self-education only produces expressions of self.

  Robert Henri

  Self, Expression, Produce

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Nature is the best instructor.

  Paul Cezanne

  Instructors

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