Educational Quotes - Page 10

• Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Money, Opportunity

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.604, Best Books on

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

  Doris Lessing

  Education, Indoctrination, Golden Notebook

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• Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

  Aristotle

  Fate, Empires, Youth

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• The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Life, Education, Teacher

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• For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.

  Arthur Rackham

  Education, Children, Learning

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• High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Motivational, Teacher

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• The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspiring, Education, Procrastination

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• Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Perseverance, Motivation, Fear

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• A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

  John Ciardi

  Inspirational, Education, Teenager

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• If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  To Varro, in "Ad Familiares" IX, 4,

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• The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Wisdom, Stupid People

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 612

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• We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

  Russell Simmons

  Knowledge, Inspirational Running, Poverty

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• The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Learning, Trying

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.41, Booklassic

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• Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Money, Son

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• It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Humorous, Learning

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• Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

  Mark Twain

  Summer, Education, Children

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.46, Chartwell

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• School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

  Ivan Illich

  Education, Believe, Learning

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• Life is too short to be small.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

  George Washington

  Education, Country, Art

  Joseph Manca, George Washington (2012). “George Washington's Eye: Landscape, Architecture, and Design at Mount Vernon”, p.176, JHU Press

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• In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.

  Harry Wong

  Education, Students, Classroom

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• I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Son, Pay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.121, Harvard University Press

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• The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

  Ken Robinson

  Education, Real, Command And Control

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• The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

  Ken Robinson

  Education, Real, School

  "How to escape education's death valley". TED Talks Education Interview, www.ted.com. April, 2013.

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