Education Quotes · Page 461

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

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

— Morris Kline

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

— Diogenes

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

— Isaac Asimov

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

— David Hockney

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

Who could think that children from the pockets of Himalaya sing folklore from Scotland and vice versa? Such an education in the…

— Mohit Chauhan

“The teachers complain that the students today are all lazy, ignorant, and stupid. But the truth is that you're smarter than they…

— Charles Benoit

Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his…

— Katherine Anne Porter

“Usually they’re carried away by people who are assertive and domineering. The risk with our students is that they’re very good at…

— Susan Cain

They [Mc Donalds] take people and give them a first job, which enables them to get a second job. They do a…

— Charlie Munger

Who was the founder of American education? John Dewey - you know that very well - card-carrying Communist. The American education system,…

— Rafael Cruz

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and…

— Moliere

Every person in the world should have the right to learn to read and go to school. It's our responsibility, as global…

— Marie Bradby

The other effect that I worry about is the effect on the parent, that the moral teaching of humility and of the…

— Michael Sandel

There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms…

— Jo Boaler

“If, redesigning our education system from scratch, it was suggested that we should attempt to teach Swahili to children but carry out…

— Frank Chalk

I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks…

— Sophia Bush

In 2011, after spending a couple of years working at Google, I decided that I wanted to dedicate myself to helping to…

— Luis von Ahn

English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in Math, even though…

— Ian Harding

We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in…

— Victor Papanek

“Her ideas were expressions of her inability to accept her own personal tragedy and her quest for some certainty on which she…

— Jill Ker Conway

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

— Davis Guggenheim

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

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

— Bruce Lee

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

— Rafe Esquith

When thoughts arise, recognize them clearly as your teacher.

— Gampopa

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

— Philip Wylie

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

— Pat Paulsen

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

— Frankie Boyle

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

— Chetan Bhagat

University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.

— Kin Hubbard

Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.

— Yoshihiko Noda

Every person who you meet has the POTENTIAL to teach you something either good or bad.

— JREYES

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

— Henny Youngman

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

— Nelson Mandela