Education Quotes · Page 536

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

— Alexander Graham Bell

Together, we can ensure that when our kids go to school they're doing less testing and more learning.

— Josh Shapiro

For too long, we financed our schools in a way that has systematically left large segments of our population behind.

— Ruben Hinojosa

You can fix ignorance with education, but you just can't fix plain stupid.

— Anonymous

The single most important thing in coaching is turning out educated kids who are ready for society.

— Allen Newell

Life is teacher and we are learning because we are still living.

— Kondwani

Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-al ready-are.

— Dalai Lama

“You learn something new every day, if you just stop to pay attention.”

— Raymond E. Feist

“scientific study and reflection had taught us that the known universe of three dimensions embraces the merest fraction of the whole cosmos…

— H.P. Lovecraft

Saving habits - in itself an education is now. It reinforces your strengths, teaching you how to refuse, orderly thinking, think before…

— Thornton T. Munger

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy,…

— Alan Greenspan

The largest question facing the human race is not when will you learn, but when will you act on what you've already…

— Neale Donald Walsch

“The Buddha’s process of investigation can be challenging. This is not because his teachings are abstract but rather because they urge us…

— Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The…

— Andrew Cuomo

The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and…

— Francis Bacon

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

— Iris Murdoch

Part of China's strategic planning is to make their universities among the top level of the world, and I think they understand…

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

Literally, walking down that path. I was walking to work and I passed by A.C.T. (American Conservatory Theater) in San Francisco, and…

— Tim Kang

I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly…

— Kay Ryan

Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in…

— Lucy Parsons

“it is clear that in the study of beings this aim can be fulfilled by us perfectly only through successive examinations of…

— George F. Hourani

As long as you're just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you're…

— Frank Zappa

“Sitting in the study hall he opened the lid of his desk and changed the number pasted up inside from seventy-seven to…

— James Joyce

My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

Teachers who have committed their lives to the classroom deserve better than our politics has given them.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.

— John Updike

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

— Anonymous

“...insisting that you control the topic of behavioral conversation ensures accountability by students...”

— Doug Lemov

The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.

— Randy Pausch

Good luck studying information you'll never use in the job you won't have when you graduate.

— Anonymous

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

— Drew Barrymore

“How do you learn to write? You sit your ass down in a chair, in front of a laptop, for ten years.…

— Sean Beaudoin

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I remember being in school the day after Tupac got killed and telling my teacher I was too depressed to do my…

— Anonymous

Teach for America has helped us understand what works and what doesn't.

— Priscilla Chan

I think it's always good to learn on the court instead of being on the bench.

— Pascal Siakam

Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.

— Andrew Forrest

The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.

— Glenn T. Seaborg

By nature all people are alike, but by education become different

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If you think about it, all of us have one or more teachers who were instrumental.

— Camila Alves