Educational Quotes - Page 36

• I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is ridiculous. There is nothing lost in translation here, it's obvious that's wrong.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Education, Children, Work Out

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• Peace is a culture that we create by putting it in the curriculum for young people, through creating this next generation where young people get a chance to go across borders, across cultures, to learn more about each other's life, to create a global community, learn about opportunities for helping others. It's investing in peace and tolerance training, ending the gap between rich and poor.

  Craig Kielburger

  Helping Others, Opportunity, Creating

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• That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, May, Literacy

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• I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Education, Children, Future

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• Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of any real civilization, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church, but belonging to everyone, every child in every home, in every school.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Education, Children, Kindness

  "Just for Animals" quoted in "Souls Like Ourselves" by Andrea Wiebers and David Wiebers, Rochester, MN: Sojourn Press, (p. 16), 2000.

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• We know that many boys and girls leave school because of poverty, because they have to work. However, there are an important number of children who abandon their studies because of the abuses they're subject to by teachers and their own parents.

  Shakira

  Girl, Education, Teacher

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• Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

  Alice Waters

  Education, Teaching, Kids

  Interview with Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. January/February, 1995.

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• I fervently believe that, as someone has said before, "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.

  Kanye West

  Education, Believe, School

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• Every child can learn, and we mean it... excuses are not good enough, we need results.

  Rod Paige

  Children, Mean, Not Good Enough

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• When it comes to the education of our children... failure is not an option.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Failure Is Not An Option, Our Children

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• I have made education a top priority of this Administration because when we get it right, when every child learns, America will be a more hopeful place.

  George W. Bush

  Children, America, Hopeful

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• It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time.

  Margery Williams

  Life, Time, Real You

  Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Became Real”, p.13, Marshall Cavendish

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• The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wise, Wisdom, Wiser

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• One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Ideas, Shadow, Literature

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• The education of the will is the object of our existence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, School, Existence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2508, Delphi Classics

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• Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

  Barbara Jordan

  Education, Keys, Political

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• Students who laugh more- learn more. Students who laugh more earn more.

  John Cleese

  Laughing, Students

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• When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Education, Parenting, Causes

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2005). “Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning”, p.9, New World Library

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• If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Mistake, Mean

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• We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

  Sydney J. Harris

  Education, Responsibility, Parenting

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• The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.

  Carl Sagan

  Education, Lying, Mean

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• I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

  John Dewey

  Believe, Progress, Reform

  John Dewey (1972). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.93, SIU Press

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• You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Love, Education, Running

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• Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Leader, Firsts

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• Education is the process of selling someone on books.

  Douglas Wilson

  Education, Book, Selling

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