Education Quotes - Page 27

• The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

  Leonard Baskin

  Art, Believe, School

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• Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Inspirational, Reality, Names

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.38, Bantam

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• I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.

  Joseph Addison

  Running, Clouds, Skills

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.3178, Delphi Classics

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• As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

  Charles Morgan

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

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• We need to create schools that are organized to meet the needs of the kids they serve instead of what we've been doing. We expect kids to adjust to the schools and if they can't, we say something is wrong with the child - instead of focusing on engagement and nurturing the love of learning in kids.

  Pedro Noguera

  Children, Learning, School

  "There’s a Way to Help Inner-City Schools. Obama’s New Education Law Isn't It". Interview with Kristina Rizga, www.motherjones.com. January 8, 2016.

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• Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, School, Knowledge

  "Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton : The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1986.

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• A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.

  George Polya

  Knowledge, Math, Discovery

  George Pólya (1957). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

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• The best learners... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.

  Stephen Brookfield

  Teacher, Real, Struggle

  Stephen Brookfield (1995). “Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher”, Jossey-Bass

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• Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

  John Adams

  Freedom, Knowledge, Unnecessary War

  'A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law' (1765)

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• The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

  Allan Bloom

  Inspiring, Philosophy, Answers

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Mistake

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• Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

  Bill Cosby

  Sex, Believe, School

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• I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

  Annie Dillard

  Remember

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.41, Canongate Books

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  There is no education like adversity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Teacher, Motivation, Adversity

  Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “Endymion”

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• Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Time, Possession

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.61, 谷月社

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• A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

  G. H. Hardy

  Math, Unique, Ideas

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

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• Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

  Brad Henry

  Reading, Democracy, Educated

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• It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

  Thomas Huxley

  Organization, Body, Machines

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews”, p.403, tredition

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• The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.

  John Locke

  Knowledge, Two, Understanding

  "The works of John Locke. To which is added the life of the author and a collection of several of his pieces, publ. by mr. Desmaizeaux".

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• Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

  John Lubbock

  Teacher, Nature, Book

  "The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

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• To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

  A. A. Milne

  Graduation, Memorable, Gambling

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• Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Time, Teaching

  Alexander Pope (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers, F.S.A. and Others. To which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author”, p.411

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• Education has for its object the formation of character.

  Herbert Spencer

  Teaching, Learning, Character

  'Social Statics' (1850) pt. 2, ch. 17, 4

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• Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

  Mark Twain

  Summer, Children, Humorous

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.46, Chartwell

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• Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Learning, Responsibility

  Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

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