Education Quotes - Page 21

• I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write songs like, "What I'm going to do if I grow up".

  Lenny Bruce

  Growing Up, Humorous, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

  Samuel Johnson

  Honesty, Integrity, Knowledge

  'Rasselas' (1759) ch. 41

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• My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

  Charles Kettering

  Stupid, Science, Men

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.

  John Adams

  Wise, Learning, Law

  John Adams (1841). “Letters of John Adams: Addressed to His Wife”, p.284

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• The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average teachers approximate the performance of good teachers.

  Margaret Mead

  Teacher, Teaching, Average

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Teacher, Teaching, Ideas

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Teaching, Useless, Too Much

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.129

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• It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

  Nikki Giovanni

  School, Vision, Educational

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• The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

  Wendell Phillips

  Wisdom, Children, Struggle

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• I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

  Haim Ginott

  Inspirational, Life, Teacher

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• I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

  Ray Bradbury

  College, Years, Library

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• The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

  Angela Merkel

  High Heels, Skills, Willingness To Learn

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit and Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

  Horace Mann

  People, Giving, Given

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1839). “Common School Journal”

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• There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Painting, Trouble

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• Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.

  Jane Haddam

  Training, Definitions, Sake

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• All education must be self-education.

  Robert Henri

  Self, Self Education

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• Study the processes and methods of those who are better at it than you... there's someone who knows something you don't, who has honed a skill more than you have. Rival your rival.

  Sara Genn

  Skills, Rivals, Study

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• In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

  Plato

  Ideas, Effort, World

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.19, University Press of America

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• Inspired intellect must endure all kinds of ghastly education.

  Paul Delaroche

  Kind, Inspired, Endure

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• When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, College, Pay The Price

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

  James Russell Lowell

  Knowledge, Desire, New Horizons

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• In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Graduation

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.26, St. Martin's Press

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• Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Reading, Age

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• The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspiring, Procrastination, Done With You

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• Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

  Napoleon Hill

  Struggle, Effort, Lessons

  Napoleon Hill (2009). “How To Sell Your Way Through Life”, p.151, John Wiley and Sons

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