Education Quotes · Page 552

[I] learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.

— James Black

Children's ability to learn is infinite when they are engaged.

— Rohini Nilekani

“To find and keep love today, you have to learn the mystery of seduction.”

— Lebo Grand

The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

— George MacDonald

“She’d been a resourceful thief, a narcissistic Robin Hood who stole a rich education from white people and kept it.”

— Sherman Alexie

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.

— Phyllis Schlafly

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

— S. I. Hayakawa

“Instead of making prisoners out of our students, we ought to make students out of our prisoners.”

— Paul W. Silver

Don't run from lessons; they are little packages of treasure that have been given to us. As we learn from them, our…

— Louise Hay

When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to…

— Annie Lennox

The discipline, particularly in these urban schools for the poor, it's not controlled by the administration - they're controlled by the police.…

— Henry Giroux

I think laptops should be banned from schools. Until you can prove you can add up on your fingers or think independently…

— Joanna Lumley

The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.

— Boyd K. Packer

My religious training told me that in times of personal uncertainty one should seek God's direction through personal prayer and study of…

— Preston Manning

Mitt Romney was attacking Obama about our failing education system. He has a point. We are graduating millions of people in this…

— Bill Maher

But being a director of a media school in Hyderabad, being actively involved in animal welfare and my personal life keep me…

— Amala Akkineni

“if you want to spend your life just proving other teachings wrong, then what you believe isn’t a belief, it’s being a…

— Qasim Rashid

“Union leaders essentially want the public to believe that all teachers are equal and deserve to be paid and treated that way—but…

— Glenn Beck

“Believe it or not, the secularists have even succeeded in passing laws that forbid the freedom of teaching about the global Flood…

— Ken Ham

My study of the wild gorilla is not yet finished, and even when it is complete, it will contribute only a small…

— Dian Fossey

Beating up on public schools is not just our nation's favorite blood sport, but also a favorite conversational entertainment of the well-off…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

I can do something about people who need me, who have been injured. So the biggest thing about being a doctor is…

— Fiona Wood

Liberals are not about choice; they are about imposition. The way they live, the way they believe, must be imposed on people,…

— Rush Limbaugh

The fact is that in England so many of our politicians are career politicians - they've always been politicians since they left…

— Jeremy Irons

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

— Gary Sinise

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

— John Ciardi

I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“It doesn’t require an education, Sergeant Beata, to see what’s right before your eyes. Use your head.” Beata”

— Terry Goodkind

“It’s easy to game school, once you realize that the rules are bullshit and you can get around them.”

— Tiffany Haddish

The more auditions you go on, the more you will learn not to take it personally.

— Paula Abdul

“Anyone can learn anything. What matters is if you want to.”

— Christina Daley

A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.

— John McCarthy

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

— Marjane Satrapi

I was never good at school and was always fighting in the streets.

— Sammo Hung

I'd love to take up organic vegetable gardening, do anything that involves learning.

— Sudha Kongara

I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.

— J. B. Pritzker

“I don’t understand. Why can’t she just be like the other teachers? Why does she have to care?”

— Tabitha Suzuma

Well, now, some people learn a little quicker than others. It's nice to learn fast but it's nice to take your time…

— James Agee

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

— Neil Postman

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

— Kurt Vonnegut