Education Quotes · Page 345

The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.

— Laozi

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

— William Graham Sumner

It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.

— Frank Gehry

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

— Joseph Addison

A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education.

— Paulo Freire

A child who goes to school but learns nothing is like an anchor that is always in the sea yet doesnt learn…

— Vikrant Parsai

High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again.

— Marguerite Moreau

If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

— Madeleine M. Kunin

They often have a lesser curriculum, less challenges, less demands. And it's totally unfair to have these two different systems.

— Richard Harris

Student loan debt is certainly not a fitting topic for a commencement speech, but it's an issue we must confront - not…

— Dianne Feinstein

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

— Aristotle

You get as much out of rock & roll artistically as you put into it. There's nobody who can teach you. You're…

— Jimmy Page

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education,…

— William Glasser

Follow your interests, get the best available education and training, set your sights high, be persistent, be flexible, keep your options open,…

— Mildred Dresselhaus

There's a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a…

— Anonymous

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely…

— Edsger Dijkstra

“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Holding as we do that, while knowledge of any kind is a thing to be honoured and prized, one kind of it…

— Aristotle

“So far Fichte’s program of education includes the communal separation of children, severe authoritarian top-down training, strict moral duty and selflessness, and…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working with kids with special…

— Joseph Mawle

I think every single one of us can think back on the key individuals in our lives who really made a difference,…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier marriage. We hear that all…

— Rebecca Traister

Traditionally, universities have seen size as potentially dilutive to quality. If you doubled the size of campus and faculty, most would argue…

— John Katzman

I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and…

— Lamar Alexander

I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.

— Skeet Ulrich

“The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.”

— Abraham Lincoln

The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization

— George Stigler

You know our education system has problems when Hallmark comes out with a new line of Easy-to-read graduation cards.

— James

The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

— Albert Einstein

My gut reaction [on Betsy DeVos] was, oh, my God. We are now back into the education wars.

— Randi Weingarten

We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay…

— Anonymous

“Focus on winning people over and teaching (rather than winning arguments). Recognize”

— David Akadjian

We either get success or lessons. If we learn our lessons successfully, we get both.

— Anodea Judith

She comes from the school of getting it out of your system, whereas he comes from the school of stewing over it.

— Melina Marchetta

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

— Wole Soyinka

“Education, medical treatment, and work are the natural rights of every citizen in the world.”

— Alaa Al Aswany

“Town-meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science;”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

— Winston Churchill

“Those we love become our teachers whether we intend it or not.”

— Donna Goddard

I learnt German as well as English, so by the time I was three my parents has already decided I was a…

— Gyles Brandreth