Education Quotes - Page 28

• Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Success, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.44, Princeton University Press

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• There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Learning, School, Boys

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 407 (1775)

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• The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

  John Dewey

  Social Justice, Process, Results

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.71, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Horse, Ignorance, Names

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.30, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.

  Hesketh Pearson

  Success, Thinking, Idiot

  Hesketh Pearson (1965). “Hesketh Pearson by Himself. (1. Ed.)”, London : Heinemann

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• School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

  John Updike

  Funny, Witty, School

  1963 The Centaur, ch.4.

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• Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

  Edward Blishen

  Philosophy, Discipline, Psychology

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• You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Beautiful, Memories, Childhood

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

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• Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it & use it. The chief aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in itself which is best and make it perfect for a noble use.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Strength, God, Spiritual

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• The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher's actions.

  Stephen Brookfield

  Teacher, Work, Knowledge

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• The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

  Seymour Papert

  Teacher, School, Knowledge

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• There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.

  Kurt Hahn

  Life, Learning, Knowledge

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• If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.

  Ole Ivar Lovaas

  Inspiring, Teacher, Learning

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• Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by color, but by the brain, by education, by willpower, by moral courage.

  Jose Celso Barbosa

  Color, Justice, Diversity

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• Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

  Julian Bond

  Children, School, Equality

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• Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.

  Alfie Kohn

  Teacher, School, House

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• People ask me, what special is in my mentorship which has made Malala so bold and so courageous and so vocal and poised? I tell them, don't ask me what I did. Ask me what I did not do. I did not clip her wings, and that's all.

  Ziauddin Yousafzai

  Courage, Wings, People

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• Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies. Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.

  Wendy Kopp

  Country, Powerful, Government

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• You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

  Ninette de Valois

  Creating, Ballet, Genius

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• Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you don't need to have science or technology degrees to build a career in tech.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Women, Science, Technology

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• Parents deserve the peace of mind of knowing their children are in good hands. By investing in early childhood educators, we are supporting nurturing child care environments where children can thrive.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Children, Gay, Knowing

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• It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they constitute or control, will go to destruction. Consequently, when a state resolves that religious instruction shall be banished from the schools and other literary institutions, it virtually resolves on self-destruction.

  Charles Hodge

  God, Religious, Children

  Charles Hodge (1871). “Systematic Theology”, p.353

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• Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, and can prevent the pending extermination of man by man on this planet. Without love, no armament, no war, no diplomatic machinations, no coercive police force, no school education, no economic or political measures, not even hydrogen bombs can prevent the pending catastrophe.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Love, War, School

  Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (2002). “The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation”, p.12, Templeton Foundation Press

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• When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.

  Jacque Fresco

  Price Tag, Limits, Resources

  Jacque Fresco (2007). “Designing the Future”, p.71, Osmora Inc.

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• If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.

  Benjamin Rush

  Bible, Christian, Time

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