Education Quotes · Page 561

We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things.

— Jim Rohn

I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to,…

— Paloma Elsesser

Learn to help people with more than just their jobs: help them with their lives.

— Jim Rohn

We can, after all, learn much from lessons we did not sign up for.

— Alexander Jablokov

Most college students are not as smart as most college presidents.

— Andy Rooney

Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education.

— Peter Hilton

Education is literally the difference between success and failure, or even life and death for many children.

— Shakira

It just seems like it would be kinda cool to be able to actually teach kids important stuff.

— Dan Bilzerian

You know you are old when you discover that your children are learning in history class what you studied in current events.

— Vikrant Parsai

A President must call on many persons--some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“I try to remember what I have too often forgotten to my peril: as far as teaching goes, when all you are…

— Garret Keizer

If cultural and educational problems are solved in line with the country's expediencies, other problems will easily be solved.

— Ayatollah Khomeini

We had the cost of college preventing people from thinking about college because they didn't want to be buried in debt. We…

— Miguel Cardona

When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I'm an admitted Hillary fan-girl, but even the coldest hearted Republicans will have to admit that she has always wanted every American…

— Jessica Tarlov

A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Unfortunately, the mechanism for doing philanthropy in a structured way isn't yet in place in India. I already do a fair bit…

— Yusuf Hamied

“Secret Teachings on Preparing Shinobi Missions: The most important thing you should keep in mind when you go on a shinobi mission…

— Yoshie Minami

MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual…

— Sam Wineburg

Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God. What then was the commencement of the whole…

— Sri Aurobindo

It's true that many of the leaders who started at non-elite colleges as undergrads later attended prominent graduate schools in law, business,…

— Nina Easton

Oh how swiftly the glory of the world passes away! If only the lives of these men had been as admirable as…

— Thomas a Kempis

“It is somewhat ironic to have us so deeply disturbed over a program where race is an element of consciousness, and yet…

— Derrick Bell

“When I came back from France they all wanted me to go to college. I couldn't. After what I'd been through I…

— William Somerset Maugham

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues.

— Ernie Fletcher

I just hated school. I dont like to learn. Dont teach me anything!

— Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians.

— Jacques Ellul

I'm just trying to learn every day, become a better student of the game.

— Marvin Bagley III

“Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them.”

— Sam Wineburg

“That's what I've started to learn about this world. It might give, but it always takes away.”

— Carrie Ryan

You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.

— Lance Armstrong

The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.

— Howard Zinn

“You can learn something from everything and everybody, especially the elderly.”

— Tyler Perry

Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems.

— Roy Barnes

It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.

— Isaac Asimov

“No More Pencils, No More Books, No more Teacher’s Dirty Looks!”

— John Meany

The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.

— Pope John Paul II

Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.

— William Cobbett