Educational Quotes - Page 26

• School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

  John Updike

  Funny, Education, Witty

  1963 The Centaur, ch.4.

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• The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

  Helen Keller

  Education, Awareness, Educated

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

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• It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Education, Children, Mean

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• The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Education, School, Vision

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• Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.

  Booker T. Washington

  Education, Mind, Done

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• The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

  Jacques Barzun

  Graduation, Education, Exercise

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• Education is the transmission of civilization.

  Will Durant

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The lessons of history”, Simon & Schuster

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• Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.

  Aristippus

  Education, Learning, School

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• Education is a vaccine for violence.

  Edward James Olmos

  Education, Reading, School

  "'Education is the Vaccine for Violence' - Edward James Olmos". foreignpolicyblogs.com. April 04, 2008.

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• Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated.

  Edith Hamilton

  Life, Education, Stress

  Quoted in the Saturday Evening Post, 27 Sep 1958.

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• The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

  Henry Ford

  Leadership, Education, Wise

  "The Secret of Staying in Love". Book by John Powell, p. 85, 1990.

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• From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

  Sigmund Freud

  Truth, Mistake, Failure

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• Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Fitness, Motivation

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

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• To err is human, to forgive is divine.

  Helen Prejean

  Forgiveness, Christian, Mistake

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• And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up.

  John Updike

  Happiness, Children, Grateful

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.55, Random House

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• History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.

  J. H. Plumb

  History, Purpose, Social

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• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  Laozi

  Nature, Intelligence, Taoism

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• Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

  Saadi

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Practice

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• Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Knowledge

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• Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for building a better life.

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Knowledge, Opportunity

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• Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the perfect vehicle for students. Consciousness-raising is pertinent for power, and be sure that power will not be abusively used, but used for building trust and goodwill domestically and internationally. Tomorrow's world is yours to build.

  Yuri Kochiyama

  Trust, Education, Knowledge

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• Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Faith, Confidence, Soulmate

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• All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, School, Knowledge

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.222, Courier Corporation

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