Education Quotes - Page 23

• Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, People, Accountability

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

  George Eliot

  College, People, Ems

  George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.143, London

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• There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Teacher, Retirement

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• [E]very man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential - unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Money, Men, Race

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.172, Best Books on

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• My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.

  Gabriel Mann

  Father, Thinking, College

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

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• Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

  Lee Iacocca

  Motivational, God, Learning

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.357, Bantam

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• In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Thank You, Teacher

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• Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

  Henry Adams

  Teaching, Ignorance, Earning It

  'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 25

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• We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.

  Josephine Baker

  Brotherhood, Natural, Instruction

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• The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teacher

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• Learning is finding out what you already know.

  Richard Bach

  Learning Knowledge, Doers, Teaching Others

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.46, Delta

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• Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.

  Rudolf Dreikurs

  Dream, Reality, Perfection

  Rudolf Dreikurs (2013). “The Challenge of Marriage”, p.94, Taylor & Francis

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• The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

  Bertrand Russell

  Truth, Religion, Facts

  Marriage and Morals ch. 5 (1929)

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• No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Teaching, Men, Taught

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• I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

  Walt Disney

  Hope, Learning, People

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• We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, School, College

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, North Atlantic Books

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• The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.

  James Stockdale

  Success, Failure, Achievement

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• I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, College, Thinking

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• A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Bible, Christian, Patriotic

  "Stepping Stone : The Complete Bible Narratives". Book by John Thomas Clark, 1941.

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• Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.

  Wendell Phillips

  Thoughtful, Men, Anxiety

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.246

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• If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

  Heinrich Heine

  Funny, Life, Latin

  As quoted in "The Medical Record", No. 674, October 6, 1883.

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• It is only the ignorant who despise education.

  Publilius Syrus

  Teacher, Money, Ignorant

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 571, 1856.

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• When schools flourish, all flourishes.

  Martin Luther

  Learning, School, Flourishing

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• Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Stupid, Book

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• His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

  Woody Allen

  Book, Beer, Reality

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