Educational Quotes - Page 28

• Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

  Douglas McGregor

  Teamwork, Decision, Boss

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• There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.

  Ken Robinson

  Country, Teacher, School

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

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• Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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• A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity that ever were written.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Daughter, Kings, Honesty

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.234, Cambridge University Press

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Abraham Lincoln's Address Delivered in Candidacy for the State Legislature, March 9, 1832.

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• One of the biggest things that needs to change is the educational system. Universities are still teaching a system to students that destroys the biosphere.

  Ray Anderson

  Teacher, Teaching, Needs

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• I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Philosophy, Teaching

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.87, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

  Bertrand Russell

  Teacher, Teaching, Important

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.181, Routledge

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• Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

  Amartya Sen

  Teacher, Parent, Enlightening

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• The science fair has long been a favorite educational tool in the American school system, and for a good reason: Your teachers hate you.

  Dave Barry

  Teacher, Hate, School

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.39, Ballantine Books

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• The most successful educational approach to the Negro is throgh a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the Minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.

  Margaret Sanger

  Religious, Successful, Men

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• I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.

  Albert Einstein

  Socialist Economy, Evil, Goal

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.

  Albert Einstein

  Attitude, Evil, Competition

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Appreciation, Lying

  Maria Montessori (2012). “The Montessori Method”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• "The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know"

  Michel Legrand

  Education, Life And Love, Realizing

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• What sets apart high-performance teams, however, is the degree of commitment, particularly how deeply committed the members are to one another.

  Jon Katzenbach

  Teamwork, Commitment, Degrees

  Jon Katzenbach, Douglas Smith (2016). “High-Performance Teams: The Katzenbach-Smith Collection (2 Books)”, p.154, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.

  Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr.

  Teamwork, Successful, Team Building

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• Never do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you'll make him an educational cripple...a pedagogical paraplegic.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Teacher, Powerful, Students

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• When we are confident, all we need is a little support.

  Andre Laurendeau

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Support

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• Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Self, Matter

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1907). “Preacher and Prayer”

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• Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

  Michael Dell

  Success, Business, Technology

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• The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

  Michael Dell

  Success, Business, Technology

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• Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

  Aristotle

  Teaching, Justice, Diversity

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• To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Ignorance, Race, Justice

  Sri Aurobindo Mandir, Calcutta, Aurobindo Ghose (1947). “Annual”

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• In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Teacher, Children, Book

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