Education Quotes · Page 383

Public schooling does not serve a public; it creates a pubic.

— Neil Postman

I personally don't like school, but you have to do it if you want to get through life, so pretty much I…

— RJ Mitte

The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.

— Georg Brandes

My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.

— Thomas Peterffy

There are three good reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and August.

— Anonymous

College students shouldn't be forced to choose between text books and their next meal.

— Alex Padilla

I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.

— Michelle Rhee

I'm trying to just go with the flow and learn from the people around me.

— Christina Ricci

Biologically and physiologically, we are not equal. Some of us learn better at different times of day. Some learn best visually, some…

— Leo Buscaglia

And the people in the houses All went to the University And they got put in boxes Little boxes all the same,…

— Pete Seeger

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time…

— John Irving

If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would…

— Herbert Hoover

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in…

— Anonymous

It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the…

— Ronald Reagan

I was very much a child of Tumblr. I did a lot of my personal education into what intersectional feminism is on…

— Ashnikko

“Students, well intentioned or otherwise, are poorly served by the idea that students and teachers are intellectual and social equals and that…

— Thomas M. Nichols

I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for…

— Malala Yousafzai

“I began my studies with eagerness. Before me I saw a new world opening in beauty and light, and I felt within…

— Helen Keller

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should…

— Ray Bradbury

I am somewhat influenced by the years that I've spent trying to actually get things done, whether it was reforming education in…

— Hillary Clinton

“I was a straight-A student at a university” does not mean what it did in 1960 or even 1980. A study of…

— Thomas M. Nichols

The well-meaning people who talk of education as if it were a substance distributable by coupon in large or small quantities never…

— George Sampson

[Microscopic] evidence cannot be presented ad populum. What is seen with the microscope depends not only upon the instrument and the rock-section,…

— Thomas George Bonney

I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.

— Tim Gunn

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon. Do not mistake the finger for the moon.” In”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Summer School: Never stop learnin' if you want to stop earnin'. I'm reasonably sure there G's in learning and earning.

— Kami Garcia

I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

— Barry Bonds

Guys annoy me so much -.- it's like they study to be an asshole.

— Anonymous

“Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

There's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.

— Amy Chua

The thing about lessons is that you have to actually listen if you want to learn anything.

— Antonio Rudiger

History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.

— Roger Rees

“If experience is the best teacher, there's nothing that comes close to the experience of life.”

— Michael A. Singer

“one of the most important components of homeschooling is worldview education.”

— Anonymous

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

— H. G. Wells

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

— Ed Koch

Working keeps me young. Anything that exercises the brain like learning lines.

— Diana Rigg

What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

— Reed Hastings