Educational Quotes - Page 30

• It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.

  Paulo Freire

  Class, Would Be, Injustice

  Paulo Freire (1985). “The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation”, South Hadley, Mass. : Bergin & Garvey

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• That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.173, Modern Library

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• What did you ASK at school today?

  Richard P. Feynman

  Teaching, School, Today

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• The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.

  William Osler

  Teacher, College, Years

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.339, Duke University Press

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• We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves.

  Stephen Downes

  Moving, Ideas, Needs

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• Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself.

  Sybil Marshall

  Views, Ends, Self Education

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• What we learn to do, we learn by doing.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Learning

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• Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

  Thomas Paine

  Teacher, Persons

  Thomas Paine (2013). “The Thomas Paine Reader”, p.461, Simon and Schuster

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• Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

  Tony Buzan

  Learning, Skills, Important

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• The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lying, Men, Self

  Woodrow Wilson (1896). “Mere Literature, and Other Essays”

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• Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

  Aesop

  Sheep, Wolves In Sheep's Clothing, Clothings

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• We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Thousand, Findings, Havens

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• We must be authors of the history of our age.

  Madeleine Albright

  Diversity, Age

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• You can't unscramble eggs.

  J. P. Morgan

  Eggs

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• Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Genius, Percent

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• Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Keys, Sloth, Rust

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249

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• If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you.

  Andre Previn

  Scare, Good Work, Ifs

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• For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Persistence, Hands, Battle

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.145, Beacon Press

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• My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

  Zhuangzi

  Contentment, Finding Happiness, Opinion

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• It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Healthy, Given, Humbling

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

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• You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people.

  Stephen Gaskin

  Thinking, Self, People

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• The more he cast away, the more he had.

  John Bunyan

  Giving, Generosity, Cast Away

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1684) pt. 2

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• Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.

  Elizabeth I

  Eye, Sight, Age

  Elizabeth I, Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, Mary Beth Rose (2000). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.386, University of Chicago Press

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• One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

  Nancy Astor

  Time, Drinking, Food

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• When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.

  Alex Haley

  Hands, Fists

  Alex Haley (2016). “Roots: The Saga of an American Family”, p.327, Da Capo Press

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