Education Quotes · Page 302

“The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think”

— James Beattie

My parents were skeptical about me becoming a footballer and encouraged me to study.

— Carles Puyol

“Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

If you're gonna learn how to do something, you'd better learn to do it right.

— Christopher McDonald

“Much of what we call History is the success stories of madmen.”

— John Holt

I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.

— Oprah Winfrey

When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care and education.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might…

— Margaret Spellings

I was a good student. For a while, my parents did make me cope with school and films simultaneously. But after a…

— Sridevi

The public schools tend to teach little kids from when they are very young about the whole universe without God and that…

— Ken Ham

Being at boarding school in the pre-internet era, especially a boarding school tucked away in the Oxfordshire countryside, was like being in…

— James Lovegrove

To me, as a keeper, you don't learn anything from sitting in the stands collecting a paycheck. You don't learn from eating…

— Kasper Schmeichel

His students were hardly in a position to tell him when he was getting windy, and he had recently noticed, as most…

— Aaron Elkins

“And if it took me more than thirty seconds of thinking, he wouldn't let me flounder. He would jump right in and…

— Lili St. Crow

Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.

— Anonymous

In the past, there has been a stigma surrounding community colleges, where they were seen as a less viable option because they…

— Jill Biden

“It is a glorious privilege to be attending this, the greatest university in all the world... take a good look and carefully…

— Spencer W. Kimball

I went to regular schools and I was home schooled a lot but I don't have any history in schools. Like, I…

— Rose McGowan

The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow…

— J. William Fulbright

Clearly, apprenticeships are a win-win: They provide workers with sturdy rungs on that ladder of opportunity and employers with the skilled workers…

— Thomas Perez

“Teaching is like having a bank account. You can happily draw on it while it is well supplied with new funds; otherwise…

— E.R. Braithwaite

There would be those of us who say that in many ways, you worry about what the Jews in Israel are doing…

— Desmond Tutu

“It can be astonishing how far some colleges will go to enforce ideological discipline. For example, at the City University of New…

— Kim R. Holmes

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

— Malala Yousafzai

Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.

— Kamila Shamsie

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

— Plato

It is sinful for students to badmouth their teachers and sinful for teachers to mislead their students.

— Igor Babailov

There should be a study of a house directly elected by the people of the world to whom the nations are accountable.

— Ernest Bevin

I co-founded Duolingo with the mission of bringing free language education to the world.

— Luis von Ahn

I was not a student of Wall Street, but I was a quick study.

— Mitch Kapor

Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.

— Andy Hargreaves

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

— William Arthur Ward

If you expect to have it all, you will have nothing. Learn to be happy with nothing - and you will have…

— Ernie J Zelinski

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

— Maggie Gallagher

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn

— Jaime King

“It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.”

— Hannah Moore

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

— Franz Kafka

We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

— Henry Giroux

It's clear that many migrant families really support their children and appreciate the transforming power of education.

— Nicky Morgan