Educational Quotes - Page 20

• To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

  Eric Liu

  Profound, United States, Problem

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• Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

  John Locke

  Inspirational, Education, Reading

  "The Book-Lover's Enchiridion" by Alexander Ireland, (p. 94), 1884.

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• The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.

  John Locke

  Education, Knowledge, Two

  "The works of John Locke. To which is added the life of the author and a collection of several of his pieces, publ. by mr. Desmaizeaux".

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• Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Fear, Failure

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.382

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• When schools flourish, all flourishes.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Learning, School

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• It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Children, Mistake, Parenting

  "Helen Keller: A Life". Book by Dorothy Herrmann, University of Chicago Press, p. 56, 1999.

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• How much do you as a consumer value a positive experience with a brand or its customer service department? How willing are you to share that with your friends? How inclined are you to let that person know that you're interaction with them was positive?

  Simon Mainwaring

  Positive Experiences, Share, Consumers

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• When a positive exchange between a brand and customers becomes quantifiable metrics, it encourages brand to provide better service, customer service to do a better job, and consumers to actively show their gratitude.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Gratitude, Jobs, Metrics

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• I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.

  John Major

  Regret, Sick, Sound

  John Major (2013). “John Major: The Autobiography”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

  Don Marquis

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  Don Marquis, William McCollum (1982). “Selected letters of Don Marquis”, Northwoods Pr

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• A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Friendship, Thank You, True Friend

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• Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

  Joyce Meyer

  Education, Competition, Levels

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• Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Law, Discipline, Age

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

  Maria Montessori

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Tasks, Arbitrary

  Maria Montessori, Gerald Lee Gutek (2004). “The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method”, p.114, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

  Henry Moore

  Inspirational, New Year, Holiday

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• The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Real, Book

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• Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Dream, Snow, Genius

  Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Scammell (1963). “The gift”

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• Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Children, Home, America

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• We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Responsibility, School

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• I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Education, Opportunity, Students

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• States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated.

  Susan Orlean

  Animal, Law, Skirts

  "Wild Animals Don’t Want to be Owned" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 20, 2011.

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• When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

  Louis Pasteur

  Respect, Teacher, Children

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• Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.

  James Cash Penney

  Inspirational, Satisfaction, Treatment

  "$Ell Your Little Heart Out!". Book by Alan L. Alford, p. 71, October 1, 2012.

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• Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.

  Ross Perot

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Talking

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