Education Quotes - Page 12

• I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,--what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Dwarves, Omnipotence

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• If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Children, School, People

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

  Abu Bakr

  Ignorant Masses, Learned Person, World

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• Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Teaching, School, Want

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• The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Teacher, Teaching

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• Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, School, Fate

  'Hansard' 15 June 1874, col. 1618

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• The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

  William James

  Philosophical, Carpe Diem, College

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• Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

  John Locke

  Inspirational, Reading, Reflection

  "The Book-Lover's Enchiridion" by Alexander Ireland, (p. 94), 1884.

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• You can get all A's and still flunk life.

  Walker Percy

  School, Life Learning, Stills

  "Don't Overdo Graduation Speech". www.altoonamirror.com. May 24, 2015.

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• The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Leadership, Teacher, Teaching

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.470, Best Books on

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• The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

  Henry Adams

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.56, Booklassic

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• The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Teaching, Learning, People

  Paul Feyerabend, Paul K. Feyerabend (1987). “Farewell to Reason”, p.316, Verso

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• The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

  George Saville

  Teaching, Men, Vanity

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• The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

  Jacques Barzun

  Graduation, Exercise, Men

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• Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.

  Ralph Bunche

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

  John Mason Brown

  Life, Purpose, Treats

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• The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.

  Ayn Rand

  Home, School, Knowledge

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.154, Penguin

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• If there is anything education does not lack today it is critics.

  Nathan M. Pusey

  Doe, Today, Critics

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• I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

  Franz Kafka

  Time, Laughter, Hands

  Franz Kafka (1965). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka”

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• Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

  James A. Garfield

  Teacher, Teaching, Justice

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.783, Best Books on

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• To teach is to learn twice.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Life, Appreciation

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

  Diane Ravitch

  Intelligent, Shining, Intelligence

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• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

  John Adams

  Philosophy, War, Son

  John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin

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• I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

  Pat Buchanan

  Children, Parent, Taught

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