Education Quotes · Page 366

Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.

— Derek Bok

The less literate are the first to fail and drop out of school.

— Stephen D. Krashen

“If you are willing to be a self-learner, you will develop yourself.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“People who are ready to learn are those who will be the best to lead.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Don't think of your courses as providing all you need for your career.

— Anonymous

I have a plan to make tuition debt-free for public colleges and universities.

— Hillary Clinton

The role of the federal government, if any, is to create more school choice.

— Jeb Bush

Does anyone really believe a four-year degree is what separates an ethical person from a con artist?

— Rich Paul

And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn;…

— Franz Kafka

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

— Martin Gardner

“There is no higher priority for those who chose a university career than acting in the students’ best interest. That’s because students…

— Eraldo Banovac

Parents do not Preach all the time, they are showing you the trail. Hidden in the teachings given to them to learn…

— Mak_786

The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate…

— Hermann Minkowski

“One study makes only the conclusion that quality increases but development slows with TDD. Other studies have demonstrated that initial development time…

— Anonymous

When you have schools that are operating in the 20th century, and we're trying to prepare our children for the 21st century,…

— Donna Edwards

Students regularly act out little psycho-dramas of oppression before an appreciative audience of diversity deanlets who use the occasion to expand their…

— Heather Mac Donald

Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her…

— Alfie Kohn

Many argue that graduates earn a 'premium' because of their education, and should have to pay their way. I agree, and that's…

— John McDonnell

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn…

— Jacques Barzun

In evaluating the way in which ball possessions are gained during the course of a game, we find that 60 to 80…

— Ralph Miller

I hadn't had any course work in ceramics. I had no courses in art education but I wasn't going to let this…

— David C. Driskell

“These programs have been successfully integrated into schools in the US, Canada, and/or the UK; have a clearly articulated curriculum that can…

— Patricia A. Jennings

There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put…

— Henry Ward Beecher

When I was a kid in school, and you asked me what I was gonna be, I mean, even as a little…

— Dickey Betts

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

— Helen McCrory

Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.

— Wallace Sayre

Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example.

— C. J. Mahaney

“People can learn a lot from one another if their need to be right falls away.”

— K L Jordaan

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

— Anne Hathaway

I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it…

— Edith Wharton

Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.

— Richard Allington

The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.

— H. L. Mencken

The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.

— Amari Cooper

The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

High school – those are your prime suffering years. They don’t get better suffering than that.

— Steve Carell

When I was in high school, it was sort of the peak of progressive education.

— Michael Penn

I'm completely self-taught. I absolutely don't believe in art or film schools!

— Tom Six

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

In my generation, there was no sushi school, no cooking school, so people have to learn from working.

— Nobu Matsuhisa