Education Quotes - Page 14

• The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play.

  Carl Orff

  Children, Learning, Heart

  "Langley Schools Music Project Innocence and Despair" by Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. January 6, 2002.

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• The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Purpose, Cherish, Immortality

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• One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Tests, Literacy

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• Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Humorous, Learning, Trying

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• Children need models rather than critics.

  Joseph Joubert

  Positive, Children, Wrestling

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• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  School, Boys, Personality

  Reginald in Russia (1910) "The Baker's Dozen"

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• Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Learning, Experience

  c.1897 Quoted in Albert Bigelow Paine (ed) MarkTwain's Notebook (1935).

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• Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ignorance, Kind, Studious

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.148, University of Georgia Press

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• The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.

  Charles Kettering

  Learning, Differences, Intelligence

  "Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering".

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• Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

  Dave Barry

  Trying, Ark, Groups

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• Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for twelve years. Is this deadly routine really necessary? And if so, for what? Don't hide behind reading, writing, and arithmetic as a rationale, because 2 million happy homeschoolers have surely put that banal justification to rest.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Teacher, Reading, School

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• The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool.

  Dennis Hastert

  Sports, Athlete, Wrestling

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• I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion

  Kurt Hahn

  Compassion, Self, Survival

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• The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Life, Math, Important

  The Reader's Digest, Vol. 140, p. 194, 1992.

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• Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

  Peter Ustinov

  Life, Mind, Prison

  Peter Ustinov (1978). “Dear Me”, Penguin Books

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• It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Children, Mean, Learning

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• The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

  William Ralph Inge

  Knowledge, Facts, Literacy

  Education (1917) ch. 2

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• Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Teacher, Women, Teaching

  Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose "The Nature and Aims of Fiction" (1969)

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• The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Inspirational, Fear, Teenager

  A Texan in England ch. 1 (1945)

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• No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

  Emma Goldman

  Sympathy, Children, Kindness

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• Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Patriotic, Opportunity, Problem

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• Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.

  Camille Paglia

  Prisoner

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.8, Vintage

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• It is always in season for old men to learn.

  Aeschylus

  Learning, Men, Literature

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". 1922.

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