Education Quotes - Page 29

• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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  How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Children, Stupid, Teaching

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

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• If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.

  Benjamin Carson

  Sports, Country, Learning

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• I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

  Clark Kerr

  Sex, Learning, Athletic

  Quoted in Time, 17 Nov. 1958

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• The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

  John Updike

  Children, Father, School

  John Updike (1963). “The Centaur”, Ballantine Books

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• I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

  Wilson Mizner

  Faith, Teacher, Atheist

  Quoted in Edward Dean Sullivan, The Fabulous Wilson Mizner (1935)

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• Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.

  Noah Webster

  Bible, God, Religious

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  It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• We need to be much clearer about what we do and do not know so that we don't continually confuse the two. If I could have one wish for education, it would be the systematic ordering of our basic knowledge in such a way that what is known and true can be acted on, while what is superstition, fad, and myth can be recognized as such and used only when there is nothing else to support us in our frustration and despair.

  Benjamin Bloom

  Inspirational, Frustration, Two

  Benjamin Samuel Bloom (1981). “All our children learning: a primer for parents, teachers, and other educators”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to find the integral of a given differential. Moreover, sometimes we cannot say with certainty whether the integral of a given quantity can be found or not.

  Johann Bernoulli

  Math, Derivatives, Statistics

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• An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

  Anatole France

  School, Mind, Doe

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.120, Delphi Classics

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• Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.

  Guy Finley

  Life, School, Winning

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• It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Work, Humorous, Learning

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• If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

  Cornelius Vanderbilt

  Related To Education, Ifs

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• What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Teacher, Teaching, Men

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• Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Teacher

  "Moving Forward".

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• One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Jung

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

  Carl Gustav Jung (1970). “The development of personality”

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• I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future.

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Jobs, Children, Teaching

  Twitter post from Oct 05, 2016

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• You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Life, Success, Art

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.10, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• A good education is another name for happiness.

  Ann Plato

  Names, Good Education

  Ann Plato (1988). “Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry”, p.33, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Inspirational, Memorable, Learning

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• Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.

  Theodore Burghard Hurt Brameld

  Success, Teacher, Teaching

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• Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Cute

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• We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Teaching, Doe

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• The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

  John Glenn

  Inspirational, Travel, Science

  "Space All systems go for National Space Day". CNN, May 4, 2000.

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