Education Quotes - Page 31

• Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

  Kofi Annan

  Teaching, Democracies Have, Democracy

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Jun 03, 2016

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• When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Wisdom, Cheating, Learning

  Twitter post from Apr 14, 2013

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• Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, ‘I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear.’ Girls are taught from the age of seven that if you get a compliment, you don’t go, ‘Thank you’, you go, ‘No, you’re insane.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Attitude, Stupid

  "Lena Dunham: 'People called me fat and hideous, and I lived" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2014.

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• Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.

  David Elkind

  Encouraging, Baby, Time

  David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.

  Kara Walker

  Art, Doctors, World

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• Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.

  Jim Rohn

  Money, Learning, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 09, 2016

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• The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

  George Santayana

  Ideas, Difficulty

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.9, Рипол Классик

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• You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

  John Adams

  Inspirational Life, Men, Good Man

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• To me, it's simple: if you've got the time, use it to get ready. What else could you possibly have to do that's more important? Yes, maybe you'll learn how to do a few things you'll never wind up actually needing to do, but that's a much better problem to have than needing to do something and having no clue where to start.

  Chris Hadfield

  Simple, Wind, Important

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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• When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

  Peter Drucker

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

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• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

  E. M. Forster

  Inspirational, Running, Teacher

  "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.

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• The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.

  George Washington

  Mean, People, Foundation

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.28, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

  Emma Goldman

  Life, Children, Learning

  Emma Goldman (1968). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children, containing fables and moral lessons. We're spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools. The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other man-made book.

  Fisher Ames

  Inspirational, Life, Bible

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• Everything having to do with human training and education has to be re-examined in light of neuroplasticity.

  Norman Doidge

  Light, Training, Neuroplasticity

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• In the world of entrepreneurs, you don't need a college education. You need a proper education.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Graduation, Learning, School

  Twitter post from Apr 14, 2017

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• Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

  Plato

  Children, Teaching, Learning

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• Education is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society. Compassion and peace of mind bring a sense of confidence that reduce stress and anxiety, whereas anger and hatred come from frustration and undermine our sense of trust. Because of ignorance, many of our problems are our own creation. Education, however, is the instrument that increases our ability to employ our own intelligence.

  Dalai Lama

  Trust, Confidence, Spiritual

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• It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Independent, Mind

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• You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

  Seymour Papert

  Teacher, Learning, Knowledge

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• we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.

  Doris Lessing

  Educational, Indoctrination, Golden Notebook

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• A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

  W. H. Auden

  Inspirational, Graduation, Sleep

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• Young children are unlikely to have their self-esteem strengthened from excessive praise or flattery. On the contrary, it may raise some doubts in children; many children can see through flattery and may even dismiss an adult who heaps on praise as a poor source of support-one who is not very believable.

  Lilian Katz

  Children, Self Esteem, Support

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• Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Reality, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Wisdom, Lying, Youth

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