Education Quotes - Page 33

• Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.

  Milton Berle

  Teacher, Teaching, Kids

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• I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.

  Anne Sexton

  Teaching, Kind, Affair

  "Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters".

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• A teacher should be sparing of his smile.

  William Cowper

  Teacher, Teaching, His Smile

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper, Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations”, p.147

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• Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Teacher, Teaching, Say Anything

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• Experience is a great teacher, and sometimes a pretty teacher is a great experience.

  Evan Esar

  Teacher, Teaching, Sometimes

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• Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  School, Age, Delinquency

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1979). “Things past”

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• Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  School, Government, Nurse

  Speech in the House of Commons, June 15, 1874.

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• Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

  Doug Larson

  Dog, Home, School

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• Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

  Nora Ephron

  Graduation, Inspire, Dresses

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from May 24, 2016

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• Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

  Orrin Hatch

  Graduation, Senior, College

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• You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.

  John Updike

  Hands, Inspire, World

  John Updike (2011). “Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism”, p.479, Random House

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• We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  School, Two, Parent

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• A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

  Helen Keller

  Stones, Wealth, Stepping Stones

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• Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

  Peter Drucker

  States, Sole, Property

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• Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pain, Genius, Lasts

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.15, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Society, Individual, Regeneration

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• There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Mistake, Life Lesson

  Denis Waitley, Dayna Waitley, Deborah Waitley (1999). “The Psychology of Winning for Women: What Every Woman Needs to Know, what Every Man Needs to Understand”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

  Ellen Key

  Teaching, Light, Waiting

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• But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology. Moreover, they must be men of action and not contemplation. I have the impression that no method of education can produce people with all the qualities required. I am haunted by the idea that this break in human civilization, caused by the discovery of the scientific method, may be irreparable.

  Max Born

  Science, Technology, Men

  "My Life & My Views". Book by Max Born, 1968.

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• When you learn your lessons, the pain goes away.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Pain, Learning

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• Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.

  George Eliot

  Luck, Matter, Ill

  "Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot".

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• I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

  Charles William Eliot

  Mother, Gentleman, Acquisition

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• In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Medicine, Lectures

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• The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Growing Up, Inspiration, Science

  "First on the Moon". Book by Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong, 1970.

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• ...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called dillettanti, physicians, jurists, and so forth.Lamenting the fragmentary time left to a professor has remaining after fulfilling his teaching duties.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Teaching, Science, University Professors

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