Education Quotes · Page 422

As the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case has shown us, separate is not always equal.

— Corrine Brown

A mistake is only really a mistake if you don't learn from it.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Experience is a good teacher, but the tuition is very high.”

— Val Edward Simone

The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

— John Knowles

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

— John Stuart Mill

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

— Rene Descartes

This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe.

— Swami Vivekananda

You can't teach people to win, it's in you, you've either got it or you haven't.

— Phil Taylor

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The fundamental truth of the real life is that not to mistakenly believe that all basic lessons can be leant by simply…

— Anuj Somany

I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of…

— Ben Jonson

For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a…

— Alexa Von Tobel

Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they…

— Jonathan Kozol

Nurses nurse and teachers teach and tailors mend and preachers preach and barbers trim and chauffeurs haul and parents get to do…

— Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz

We have lots of heroes today - sportsmen, supermodels, media personalities. They come, they have their 15 minutes of fame, and they…

— Jonathan Sacks

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent…

— William Glasser

Our accent will be upon youth: we need new ideas, new methods, new approaches. We will call upon young students of political…

— Malcolm X

The most reliable way to be certain of their classroom impact is through independent studies conducted by third-party organisations which compare the…

— Wendy Kopp

At each stage of development the child needs different resources from the family. During the first year, a variety of experience and…

— Jerome Kagan

“It was a perfect school for Einstein. The teaching was based on the philosophy of a Swiss educational reformer of the early…

— Walter Isaacson

Write. Write every day. Write honestly. Write something that doesn’t exist, and you wish did. Read. Learn. Study. Watch people. Listen to…

— Brian Michael Bendis

The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because…

— John Taylor Gatto

There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.

— Barack Obama

I'm not a policy expert - I am only arguing that there is more to an education than an economic ticket.

— Rebecca Mead

I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.

— Vicki Lawrence

“In the string style of education, the start of the string is often a question.”

— Loren Mayshark

“Teach a man who knows Nothing, Something, and he'll think he knows Everything”

— Joshua Teya

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Anyone who tells you that he or she knows the "correct" way to study either is lying or has a superiority complex”

— Stefanie Weisman

We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.

— James Carville

Studying is something I really love doing, and I just hope to have enough money for tuition.

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

“Someone has said, "Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance." I agree.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

— Alice James

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

— Lily Tomlin

I want to learn Kannada and maybe even dub for myself in the future.

— Ishita Dutta

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose...

— Anonymous

If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

— John Steinbeck

The two basic processes of education are knowing and valuing.

— Robert J. Havighurst