Education Quotes - Page 40

• I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit

  Ron Silver

  People, Actors, Fields

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• I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you

  Amber Tamblyn

  Thinking, Play, Too Much

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• If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, May, Want

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2666, Best Books on

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• The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Red Flags, People, United States

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• People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.

  David Soul

  Song, Jobs, Blue

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

  Arthur Ashe

  Leadership, Basketball, Character

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• Educate yourself. Understand what you're dealing with. Then figure out how to fight it. Then figure out how to raise money for that fight. It'll help you cope. It'll help your child.

  Boomer Esiason

  Sports, Children, Fighting

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• We need to continually look within ourselves. Contemplate our inner being and find our own unique voice and then learn to heed it and we will then have the life experience we deserve.

  Dirk Benedict

  Unique, Voice, Training

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• Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.

  Andrew Forrest

  Learning, School, Opportunity

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• I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.

  Barry Bonds

  Kids, League, Needs

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

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• A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future".

  Henry Wriston

  Music, Dream, Artist

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• There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  Community, Marketing, Working Together

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• There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is dead and buried. There is no room for fixed and natural law or permanent moral absolutes.

  John Dewey

  Law, Soul, Needs

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• This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on leavings and garbage . . . What about our own roots? . . . I am up against the system, the whole method and approach of a system of education which makes us morons, cultural morons, but efficient clerks for all your business and administration offices.

  R.K. Narayan

  Roots, Office, Leaving

  R. K. Narayan (2012). “The English Teacher”, p.328, Vintage

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• Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.

  B. F. Skinner

  Punishment, Doe, Tasks

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• Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

  Allan Bloom

  Trying, Might, Students

  Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster

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• Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

  Robert Charles Winthrop

  Hands, Half, Slavery

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• English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Girl, Taken, School

  Mary Augusta Ward (2002). “Marcella”, p.552, Broadview Press

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• I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets

  Heraclitus

  Book, Reading, Learning

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• Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

  Diogenes

  Teacher, School, Why Not

  Herakleitos, Diogenes (2011). “Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport”, p.55, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Flower, Artist, Way

  Robert Mapplethorpe, Germano Celant, Hayward Gallery (1996). “Mapplethorpe”

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• The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal to us;– they implore us to think more of the character of our people than of its numbers; to look upon our vast natural resources, not as tempters to ostentation and pride, but as means to be converted by the refining alchemy of education into mental and spiritual treasures; ...and thus give to the world the example of a nation whose wisdom increases with its prosperity, and whose virtues are equal to its power.

  Horace Mann

  Spiritual, Character, Mean

  "Report of an Educational Tour in Germany, and Parts of Great Britain and Ireland: Being Part of the Seventh Annual Report of Horace Mann".

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• The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a "wholesome personality" are inevitably their own.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Creativity, Science, Personality

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• Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

  Jimmy Connors

  Tennis, Problem, Advantage

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• Educate a man and you educate an individual. Educate a woman and you educate a family.

  Arthur Shearly Cripps

  Women, Individual, Educate

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