Education Quotes - Page 25

• A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Teacher, Teaching, Firsts

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• We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

  B. F. Skinner

  Inspiring, Book, Teaching

  "B. F. Skinner: The Man and His Ideas". Book by Richard Isadore Evans, p. 73, 1968.

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• If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.

  Maria Montessori

  Tasks, Arbitrary, Movement

  Maria Montessori, Gerald Lee Gutek (2004). “The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method”, p.114, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

  Beatrix Potter

  Memorable, Learning, School

  Beatrix Potter (2005). “Beatrix Potter: Artist & Illustrator”, Frederick Warne Publishers

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• I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.

  Carmelo Anthony

  College, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Victor Kelly, drake.stg.www.ign.com. January 08, 2004.

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• The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

  K. Patricia Cross

  Appreciation, Teacher, Retirement

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• Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities. We all know that education, more than anything else, improves our chances of
  building better lives.

  Nelson Mandela

  Life, Children, Priorities

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.129, Pan Macmillan

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• You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

  Edward Abbey

  Light, Illumination, Darkness

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.49, RosettaBooks

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• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.270

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• The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Teacher, Teaching, Eye

  "Orphic Sayings: LXXX. Teacher". "The Dial", www.alcott.net. January 1841.

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• Education is the cheap defense of nations.

  Edmund Burke

  Defense, Nations

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• Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

  Al Capp

  Educational, Educational Institutions, Institutions

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• Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

  Anatole France

  Motivational, Book, Library

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• The public school has become the established church of secular society.

  Ivan Illich

  School, Secular Society, Church

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• If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, War, Civilization

  Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816

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• That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

  Doris Lessing

  Learning, Understanding, Intelligence

  DORIS LESSING (1969). “THE FOUR-GATED CITY”

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• The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

  George Henry Lewes

  Philosophy, Principles, Ends

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• I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Smile

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

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• Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

  Joyce Meyer

  Competition, Levels, Fields

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  Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

  Ann Richards

  Teaching, Memorable, Diversity

  Ann Richards (2013). “Straight from the Heart”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Children, Science, Ends

  Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Sermons ...”, p.271

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• The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Likes And Dislikes, Desire

  John Ruskin (1903). “Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain”

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• He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Witty, Teacher, Clever

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903). A further extension appears in Jacob M. Braude, Speaker's Encyclopedia of Stories, Quotations, and Anecdotes (1955): "Those who can, do; those who can't teach; and those who can't do anything at all, teach the teachers."

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• To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Eye, Way, Obstacles

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

  Paul Wellstone

  Democracies Have, Goal, Democracy

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