Education Quotes - Page 37

• One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peac, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come upon the little-read school boy.

  Bennett Cerf

  Teaching, School, Boys

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• What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears.

  Maurice Natanson

  Teacher, Teaching, Students

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• A 5 yr. old's definition of nursery school: "A place where they teach children who hit, not to hit, and children who don't hit, to hit back."

  James E. Myers

  Children, Teaching, School

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• The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.

  Alexander Sutherland Neill

  Children, Teaching, Thinking

  Alexander Sutherland Neill (1970). “Summerhill: for & against”, Hart Pub. Co

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• Doors will slam in your face. You must pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and knock again; it's the only way to achieve your goals in life.

  Michael Uslan

  Doors, Dust, Goal

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• Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.

  Laura Matilda Towne

  Book, School, College

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• The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.

  John Locke

  Teaching, Learning, Technology

  John Locke, Ruth Weissbourd Grant, Nathan Tarcov (1996). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, Hackett Publishing

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• It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Mother, Father, Heaven

  "We Believe: Doctrines and Principles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints". Book by Rulon T. Burton, p. 10, 1994.

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• If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly and understand the subtleties of all the arts and sciences as well as sons.

  Christine de Pizan

  Daughter, Art, School

  "The Book of the City of Ladies". Book by Christine de Pizan, transl. by Earl Jeffrey Richards, Part I, ch. 27, p. 63, 1983.

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• Common integration is only the memory of differentiation.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Memories, Differentiation, Common

  "Modern Computer Algebra". Book by Joachim von zur Gathen, April 25, 2013.

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• I was x years old in the year x2.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Math, Years, Mathematics

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• Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

  Edward G. Begle

  Math, Science, Complicated

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• In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts.

  Joel Barlow

  People, Theatre, Slavery

  Joel Barlow (1796). “The Political Writings of Joel Barlow ... A New Edition Corrected”, p.192

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• The fine arts, both in those who cultivate and those only who admire them, open and expand the mind to great ideas. They inspire liberal feelings, create a harmony of temper, favorable to a sense of justice and a habit of moderation in our social intercourse.

  Joel Barlow

  Art, Ideas, Justice

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• Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

  Lee Simonson

  Events, Favourite, Made

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• Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance, and nothing can bring us together better than an educated population.

  John Sculley

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Together

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• If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Children, Ignorance

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.84, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Teacher, Children, Science

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• There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden... The pupil is in the age of spontaneous variation which at no period of life is so great. He does not want a standardized, overpeptonized mental diet. It palls on his appetite.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Children, Science, Garden

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• The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized, a form of the soul's quest for God. Whether or not the goal is ever reached, an awareness of the process brings enlightenment.

  Rudy Rucker

  God, Math, Games

  Rudy Rucker (2013). “Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite”, p.19, Princeton University Press

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• Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.

  Fiona Wood

  Sports, Book, Learning

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• You see it in schools all over... the concept that 'I'll be somewhat less than my best in order to make those around me feel more comfortable' is alive and well... I'm very keen that they understand that if they make themselves a little less than they can be, it is a one-way street to mediocrity.

  Fiona Wood

  Leadership, Learning, School

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• Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a vibrant and practical role to play in this complex world of ours. Higher education and research are worthy of your much closer attention. Yes, we can be and should be the clever country. Our progress can be within the highest ethical and moral framework. But this will only happen if we place appropriate emphasis on education, research and innovation within a truly international framework.

  Gustav Nossal

  Leadership, Country, Clever

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• My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.

  Robert Menzies

  Leadership, Learning, Pieces

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• Can we really be friends with those who don't love the books that we do? Of course we can, but can we really be friends with those who don't love any books? I'm not so sure of that.

  Ramona Koval

  Love, Book, Learning

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