Education Quotes - Page 24

• The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.

  H. L. Mencken

  Intelligent, Men, Average

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Learning, Learned Person

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.101, Macmillan

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• The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

  Twyla Tharp

  Littles, Made, Formal

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• The accumulation of facts, even if interesting in themselves, should not constitute the main part of education; these facts, whether they be of classical learning or knick-knacks of history, will be of little use unless the mind has been trained to see them in proper perspective.

  Arthur Lynch

  Interesting, Perspective, Mind

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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• The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

  Sydney J. Harris

  College, Mind, Purpose

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• When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Teacher

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• Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Teacher, School, Measurement

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• We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Gambling, Roots

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.367

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• It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

  T. S. Eliot

  School, Emotional, Intellectual

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Stupid, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Seeking knowledge at an Young age is like engraving on a stone.

  Hasan of Basra

  Wisdom, Islamic, Learning

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• An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

  Russell Baker

  Learned Person, Information, Educated

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• I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.

  Robert Frost

  Teacher

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• There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Leisure, Worthless

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• Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Father, Men, Genius

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing.

  Alexander Pope

  Learning, Knowledge, Intelligence

  An Essay on Criticism l. 215 (1711) See Drayton 2

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• Education is the mother of leadership.

  Wendell Willkie

  Inspirational, Leadership, Mother

  Wendell Lewis Willkie (1943). “Freedom and the Liberal Arts”

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• Education forms the common mind.

  Alexander Pope

  Mind, Common, Twigs

  Epistles to Several Persons "To Lord Cobham" l. 101 (1734)

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• To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

  John Buchan

  Mind, Kind, Great Minds

  1940 Memory Hold-the-Door, ch.2.

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• Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Teaching, Mean, People

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• Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Essentials, Want, Ability

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• Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

  Jacques Barzun

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Teacher

  1955 In Newsweek, 5 Dec.

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• There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Divine Beauty, Birth

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• Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  America, Survival, Today

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