Education Quotes · Page 367

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

— Laozi

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

— Madeleine M. Kunin

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Skeet Ulrich

A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education.

— Paulo Freire

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

— Joseph Addison

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

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today…

— Alexander Pope

I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first,…

— Frederick Lenz

I lived in Wales back in 1982 and 1983. I studied journalism at South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education just off Newport…

— Simon Fowler

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high…

— Janet Napolitano

“To remain valuable in our economy, therefore, you must master the art of quickly learning complicated things. This task requires deep work.”

— Cal Newport

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human…

— Angelina Grimke

I read several books on possession and exorcism and did some study on epilepsy. I tried to look at everything from a…

— Jennifer Carpenter

“At Duke University, our infrastructure comes from the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies and the John”

— Cathy N. Davidson

The most important Bible teaching that I remembered when I was in the Navy and when I was Commander-in-Chief, was that we…

— Jimmy Carter

From the Scriptures we find basic truths that may serve as the foundation of our teaching of history. The first basic truth…

— D. A. Fisher

“Although all of the above-mentioned five doctrines were preached by the Buddha Himself, yet there are some that belong to the Sudden,…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“It is not the ship in the water but the water in the ship that sinks it. So it is not the…

— J. Wilbur Chapman

“This sense of entitlement is one reason they are continually angry at “experts” and especially at “elitists,” a word that in modern…

— Thomas M. Nichols

Teachers give so much to the future and to youth. So, when you see somebody make that type of sacrifice towards work…

— Common

“Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me “weak” or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study…

— William Butler Yeats

“First, the subjects we teach are as large and complex as life so our knowledge of them is always flawed and partial.…

— Parker J. Palmer

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

— Anonymous

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

— Randi Weingarten

“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

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

— James

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

— George Stigler

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Melina Marchetta

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

The idea that education can ever be value-neutral is absurd.

— Mal Fletcher

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

— Wole Soyinka

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

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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

— Alaa Al Aswany

The Catholic Church's teachings are authoritative. There is a moral absolute on abortion - that it is wrong.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg