Educational Quotes - Page 17

• We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Teacher, Teaching

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• Love is love's reward.

  John Dryden

  Love, Philosophy, Literature

  John Dryden (1779). “The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson”, p.88

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• Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted with this squalid betrayal, one imagines he would have felt sick and oppressed.

  Terry Eagleton

  Betrayal, Sick, Imagine

  "What would Rousseau make of our selfish age?" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way.

  Terry Eagleton

  Men, Adults, Way

  "What would Rousseau make of our selfish age?" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.

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• I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

  Umberto Eco

  Black And White, Years, Play

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• Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Birth Defects, Weight

  "Preventable Hunger in Our Land of Plenty" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2013.

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• Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Failure, Carpe Diem

  "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

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• The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Men

  Joseph Eger, Albert Einstein (2005). “Einstein's Violin: A Conductor's Notes on Music, Physics, and Social Change”, Tarcher

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• Home is where one starts from.

  T. S. Eliot

  Home, Sweet Home, Where Home Is

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 5 (1940)

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• For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

  Havelock Ellis

  Preparation, Littles, Needs

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.14, Elsevier

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• We are wiser than we know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Frustrated, Wiser, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.174, Penguin

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• He is not a lover who does not love forever.

  Euripides

  Love, Life, Romantic

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• It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Inspirational, Success, Teamwork

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• Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.

  Jane Fonda

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

  "Fostering Success" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2009.

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• Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Time, Business

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• You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Teacher, Retirement, Work

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• A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Wisdom, Food

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• Games lubricate the body and the mind.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sports, Games, Mind

  "Edge-Tools of Speech". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou (p. 177), 1899.

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• The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, Hands, Vision

  Benjamin Franklin (1855). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself ; to which is Added His Miscellaneous Essays”, p.332

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• Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Philosophy, Ego

  Sigmund Freud (2010). “The Interpretation of Dreams”, p.268, Basic Books

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• In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, New Year

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• If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Children, Real

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

  John W. Gardner

  Education, Teaching, School

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• In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

  Bill Gates

  Color, Cities, Community

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• I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Dna, Black, Culture

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