Education Quotes · Page 455

“Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.”

— Idries Shah

The things that have been most valuable to me, were the things I didn't learn in school

— My Mind Can Speak On It's Own

“The one great universal in the study of violence is that most of it is committed by fifteen-to-thirty-year-old men.”

— Steven Pinker

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

— Oscar Wilde

Design is all about learning from doing, that’s how we evolve to the best solution.

— Tim Brown

Education make a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive: easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

— Peter Brougham

For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside.

— Robert Sommer

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

— Sonia Sotomayor

I'm learning a lot by reading teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron. They teach me because I feel like I have…

— Sandra Cisneros

That should be the goal, is that every kid in every neighborhood, despite whatever challenges they may face, are getting a great…

— Michelle Rhee

The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through…

— Maria Montessori

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.

— Mark Twain

In the end, it's about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the…

— John Wooden

Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. "

— Henry Rosovsky

I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted…

— Roger Zelazny

This is a universal human dream - that brains, not brawn, will rule - and the fact that America has the world's…

— David Ignatius

Those who delve into the scriptural library … find that to understand requires more than casual reading or perusal—there must be concentrated…

— Howard W. Hunter

The zooming wealth of the top 1 percent is a problem, but it's not nearly as big a problem as the tens…

— David Brooks

I can remember visiting one school in Nottingham - where there were about 10 pupils on the brink of exclusion. They had…

— Jermaine Jenas

After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn.…

— Harald zur Hausen

The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against…

— Evo Morales

We're foolish if we think we're going to end mass incarceration unless we are willing to deal with the reality that huge…

— Michelle Alexander

“Deconstruction as an educational strategy   Here is an example. Kate Ellis is a radical gender feminist. Ellis, as she writes in…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement…

— James Madison

You know, this is what I've always thought a college should look like.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

— John Maynard Keynes

It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition.

— James E. Rogers

Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.

— William Standish Knowles

Launch yourself on wave of vision. & innovation.The most precious is the desire to learn & grow.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

“Learning itself is a present, you know. The best one anybody can give or get.”

— Stephen King

You are going to be what you put in your body, so I try to teach that to my kids, and the…

— Emeril Lagasse

“Reading is a practice; good reading is a highly sophisticated practice. The practice has to be learnt.”

— Andrew Davison

“At the University of Utah we not only educate the mind we transform it.”

— Michael K. Young

“He couldn't have explained this misery of his, it exceeded his education.”

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”

— Abigail Adams

I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

— Jenny Eclair

“Go forward in your beliefs and teachings, educate the open-minded and be humble to the ones who aren’t.”

— Lauren Lola

Every student, without exception, should be able to succeed well at something consequential.

— Ted Sizer

With every film that I am doing I am learning new things either about myself, or about filmmaking.

— Sanya Malhotra

Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.

— Meryl Streep