Education Quotes - Page 18

• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Philosophy, School

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• Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

  Sugata Mitra

  Knowing, Important, Able

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• It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Wisdom, School, Common Sense

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• There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Ignorance, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.162, Harvard University Press

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• They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.

  Douglas Yates

  School, Mean, Parent

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• The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

  James Madison

  Freedom, Inspirational Life, Knowledge

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.41, University of Virginia Press

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• Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Success, Hero

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.120, Library of Alexandria

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• A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.

  Miriam Defensor Santiago

  Teacher, Jobs, Learning

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• I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Grandchildren, Dice, Reading Books

  "Tallulah: My Autobiography". Book by Tallulah Bankhead, 1952.

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• I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Inspirational, Learning, Knowledge

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• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Reading, Teaching, Learning

  English Social History ch. 18 (1942)

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• There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

  James Truslow Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  James Truslow Adams (1930). “A Searchlight on America”, London : Routledge

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• The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Mind, Should, Whole

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• If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself

  Alexander Sutherland Neill

  Teacher, Feelings, Looks

  Alexander Sutherland Neill (1953). “The Free Child”

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• Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beautiful, School, Cities

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.

  John Milton

  Path, Firsts, Sides

  John Locke, John Milton (1830). “Some thoughts concerning education”, p.275

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• If you had to explain America's economic success with one word, that word would be "education".... Until now, the results of educational neglect have been gradual - a slow-motion erosion of America's relative position. But things are about to get much worse, as the economic crisis ... deals a severe blow to education across the board.... We need to wake up and realize that one of the keys to our nation's historic success is now a wasting asset. Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process.

  Paul Krugman

  Blow, America, Keys

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• You see, we'll never be able to compete in the 21st century unless we have an education system that doesn't quit on children, an education system that raises standards, an education that makes sure there's excellence in every classroom.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Excellence, Able

  "Bush, Kerry debate domestic policies". Final presidential debate, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2004.

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• And when it comes to developing the high standards we need, it's time to stop working against our teachers and start working with them. Teachers don't go in to education to get rich. They don't go in to education because they don't believe in their children. They want their children to succeed, but we've got to give them the tools. Invest in early childhood education. Invest in our teachers and our children will succeed.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Children, Believe

  "Pay teachers more money & treat them like professionals". Barack Obama's speech at the Take Back America 2007 Conference in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Campaign for America's Future, www.ontheissues.org. June 19, 2007.

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• There's a reason education sucks, and it's the same reason it will never ever ever be fixed. It's never going to get any better. Don't look for it. Be happy with what you've got, because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now... the real owners. The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners.

  George Carlin

  Country, Real, Talking

  "Life Is Worth Losing". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an apparently unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel thorough which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

  Claire Weekes

  Wall, Thinking, Tunnels

  "Hope and Help for Your Nerves".

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• One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren't sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education.

  Edward Gibbon

  Clever, Ideas, People

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• Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.

  Charles Lamb

  Teacher, Teaching, People

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.763, Delphi Classics

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• The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Organization, Training, Mind

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• The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.

  C. S. Lewis

  Intelligent, Would Be, Idlers

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