Education Quotes · Page 396

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

— Paul Goodman

“School forces unique individuals to think, act, and, look alike.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself.”

— Dave Cullen

I transferred schools in high school, so I've been the new girl on the block.

— Taylor Louderman

If I didn't play baseball, I would probably study accounting.

— Carlos Correa

“If you haven’t been made uncomfortable by the teachings of Jesus, you probably haven’t understood them.”

— David M. Felten and Jeff Procter-Murphy

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

— Ringo Starr

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.

— Parker J. Palmer

I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer - and…

— Suheir Hammad

Now, even in Japan, Zen has become just a scholarly study. Zen is not a scholarly study. Zen is an existential quantum…

— OSHO

The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only:…

— Herodotus

I studied only till class VII at the Andhra Society High School, Wadala and dropped out when I realised that education was…

— Johnny Lever

“cops aren’t blamed for our country’s crime problems, firefighters for our safety problems, nurses for our health problems, or trash collectors for…

— John Owens

The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively…

— John Dewey

“Education must shift from instruction, from imposing of stencils, to discovery—to probing and exploration and to the recognition of the language of…

— Marshall McLuhan

The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter…

— Dick Gephardt

Eight hours daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements sufficient to afford an ample supply of food,…

— Robert Owen

And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in…

— John Updike

So much of the writing is not conscious, in the sense that it's not calculated. I remember in film school we had…

— Don Hertzfeldt

We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by…

— Martin Luther

I mean, if you've ever been a governor of a state, you understand the vast potential of broadband technology, you understand how…

— George W. Bush

Making smart investments in early childhood education could not only generate more than $7 of economic benefits over a child's lifetime for…

— Neera Tanden

I mean, the piano, of course, but I think the piano should be taught in school just like mathematics, just like reading,…

— Gary Bartz

When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a…

— Ashot Nadanian

Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture.

— James Patterson

“Everybody at a university was to her a professor, unless they were students of course, and therefore even worse.”

— Diana Wynne Jones

Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.

— Mitt Romney

“We cannot continue to send our children to Caesar for their education and be surprised when they come home as Romans.”

— Voddie T. Baucham Jr

I majored in business/marketing because I was going to be a teacher and a high school basketball coach.

— John Calipari

I cannot teach -- if I teach as teaching should be I become so exhausted I nearly die, I seem to have…

— James Tiptree Jr

“Always choose the most difficult way, there you will not meet competitors.”

— Charles de Gaulle

You're supposed to keep learning. You're not supposed to stagnate.

— Brad Stevens

“Education is important! That piece of paper is your key to success”

— Queen Brown

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.

— Allan Bloom

You can learn more about anything, and the truth about almost anything is surprising.

— Adam Conover

Deep learning is a really powerful metaphor for learning about the world.

— Jeff Dean

It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents.

— Sara Zarr

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

— William Glasser

I seriously need to learn the difference between being bored, and being hungry.

— Anonymous