Education Quotes · Page 393

In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end.

— Anna Quindlen

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.

— Joshua Lederberg

A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.

— Anonymous

There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.

— Amartya Sen

You can't learn anything new, until you are open enough to forget everything you think you know

— James Victore

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.

— Isaac Asimov

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

— Diogenes

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

— Morris Kline

If we go to school to learn, and knowledge is power and power is corrupt and corruption is crime and crime doesn't…

— Anonymous

“If our schools continue to limit the literacy curriculum to reading and writing traditional, alphabetic, printed texts, then our children will be…

— Elizabeth A. Baker

Boosting STEM education opportunities for young women globally is one critical way that the U.S. can promote women's equality, as well as…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

I'm all for empowerment and education, but the empirical evidence is that it doesn't work. That's why I say make it easy.

— Richard Thaler

I think I always wanted to go into physics. What always fascinated me about science was the desire to understand what underlies…

— Alan Guth

Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.

— Charley Pride

Conscious listening is very largely overlooked in the mainstream of education. It's such an important skill in life. And yet we expect…

— Julian Treasure

Military history is essential to understanding any history and, moreover, is a terrifying and sobering study in the realities of human nature…

— Lawrence Osborne

I'm a big believer in the student-athlete part. I value the education and what it provides for you. Football is a vocation.…

— Dabo Swinney

I wanted to get my coaching badges after retiring, and I asked to take the exam, but they told me I needed…

— Johan Cruyff

“If Mary had applied for a job as janitor, the doors to the school would swing wide open. As a professional engineer-in-training…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“Another "advanced" educational method does not mark examination papers for their accuracy; instead, grades are given indicating that the child has done…

— Isabel Paterson

The academisation of schools under New Labour helped the Conservatives bring free schools into being. They said the new model would allow…

— Dawn Foster

The faith of the Latter-day Saints and the teaching that I have had since I was a child at my mother's knee,…

— Heber J. Grant

We must rediscover our faith in the future and join with one another to ensure that nonviolence is the prevalent choice for…

— Bernice King

“Self-care is not a perfect journey. Different factors and barriers, including mental ones, get in the way of self-care. Even when armed…

— Jor-El Caraballo

We have some concerns if student financial aid is not keeping pace, and college costs continue to outstrip inflation.

— Mary Johnson

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

— Natalie Portman

The ideal of service and the urge to practice it form the very heart of education.

— Sai Baba

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

— Itzhak Perlman

The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.

— David Hockney

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.

— Bruce Lee

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

— Anonymous

You realize we're all going to go to college as virgins. They probably have special dorms for people like us.

— Jason Biggs

Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.

— Andy Hargreaves

The good news is everybody believes in education, Republican or Democrat, we want great schools.

— Davis Guggenheim

In opposition to sex education: Let the kids today learn it where we did - in the gutter.

— Pat Paulsen

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

— Philip Wylie

When thoughts arise, recognize them clearly as your teacher.

— Gampopa

I don't think we expect enough of students. They just need someone to show them the way.

— Rafe Esquith

“Would you rather take a sensible student, or someone who speaks a foreign language well?’ My”

— Chetan Bhagat

When I went to school, sex education was mainly muttered warnings about the janitor.

— Frankie Boyle