Education Quotes · Page 507

There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

— Paulo Coelho

There are not enough philanthropic dollars in America to fund what is currently the need in education.

— Betsy DeVos

Colleges [have] forfeited the responsibilities of in loco parentis and have gone into the pimping and brothel business.

— Vigen Guroian

Learning without reflection is a waste, reflection without learning is dangerous.

— Confucius

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

— Nikki Giovanni

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

— John Lubbock

I think people are always surprised to learn that I'm actually nice.

— Bretman Rock

“Half of what students learn in school is useful only during examinations.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher,…

— Carl Rogers

This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up…

— Shirley Knight

You must have an opinion about yourself, some kind of meaning to yourself, a purpose, if you are really going to learn…

— KRS-One

My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me…

— Anonymous

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by…

— Alfred North Whitehead

It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to…

— Paulo Freire

“When education is free and available instantaneously, innovation comes from valuable transformational relationships, not transactions.”

— Richie Norton

My concern for education in New Mexico has always been there. I'm one of those kids that struggled through school, and I…

— Steven Michael Quezada

I've been able to have broad kind of education and all sorts of different music and a lot of kind of films…

— Steven Price

“The best and noblest parts of man depend precious little on culture, education, and whatever else it is called. One can never…

— Wilhelm Von Humboldt

“The fact is, parents and schools and cultures can and do shape people. The most important influence in my life, outside of…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“Your people must learn to give up their arrogance. They are not the only ones placed on this earth. Theirs is not…

— Kent Nerburn

“I doubt very much if it is possible to teach anyone to understand anything, that is to say, to see how various…

— John Holt

“should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful; and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning…

— George Fillmore Swain

At school, when kids are being encouraged to get the one right answer and fill in that bubble, people can do things…

— Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher…

— Donna Shalala

Educated mothers are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

“All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.”

— Roberto Bolaño

We believe that Liberty will redefine what is considered an academically prestigious university in the future.

— Jerry Falwell, Jr

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Coaching - teaching the game - came relatively easy. I connected extremely well with the players.

— Dawn Staley

Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.

— Edward Blishen

Teacher: Where is your homework? ME: I lost it fighting with kid who said you werent the best teacher in school.

— Anonymous

When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.

— Paul Simon

Learning what not to do is sometimes more important than learning what to do.

— Rick Pitino

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

— Albert Einstein

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.

— Roger Bacon

Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

— Anonymous

You learn more from your mistakes than you do from your successes.

— T. Berry Brazelton

You have to have teachers who are empowered to facilitate great teaching.

— Betsy DeVos

It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.

— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock