Education Quotes · Page 589

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

— Thomas Jefferson

Learn all you can. Growth comes from setting your goals high and reaching for the stars.

— Spencer W. Kimball

Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.

— Margaret Spellings

I don't know, you know all through high school I just knew I wanted to do it.

— Josh Duhamel

“Be present in this class. And then, when it's over, be present out there.”

— John Green

“They made my life big. They contributed to an education that money can’t buy.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Children do not play because they learn; They play because they play.

— Magda Gerber

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

— Anonymous

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

— Walt Disney

I'm very struck by what you can do in a classroom. I've got 200 students. You don't do partisan politics in a…

— Michael Ignatieff

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own…

— Shirley MacLaine

Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study…

— Samuel Johnson

People who call you stupid just can't figure out your reasons for reasoning differently. You are only stupid when your own ideas…

— Noble Yabi

I was supposed to move into a new place and it fell through. So for five months before Sex Education, I was…

— Ncuti Gatwa

Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club…

— Ben Shapiro

“This is a very important study because it shows that when we perceive a reality in which success is likely, that success…

— Shawn Achor

“The men in grey were powerless to meet this challenge head-on. Unable to detach the children from Momo by bringing them under…

— Michael Ende, Momo

“The bottom line here -- and I use the phrase with an eye to the mind-set that promotes these 'systems' -- is…

— Garret Keizer

“Education for freedom must begin by stating facts and enunciating values, and must go on to develop appropriate techniques for realizing the…

— Aldous Huxley

My long-held fear is that Mr. Obama is hiding something about his education. During the endless 2008 campaign, Mr. Obama would not…

— Andrew Breitbart

The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature…

— Matthew Arnold

“It sucks to be an orphan. Now what do we do? What is Plan B? For us, the answer was to find…

— Ross Meador

But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a…

— Neil Gaiman

I think that kids who are at smaller schools or don't have offers from big schools can look at my story and…

— Josh Allen

During college, I found academics repulsive and forced myself to study subjects I didn't want to pursue.

— Ishaan Khatter

Thank you for loving me, hating me, hurting me, and teaching me how to let go of someone that wasn't right for…

— Anonymous

Head Start has been a key component of health, nutrition and early learning opportunities since the 1960s.

— J. B. Pritzker

I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.

— Paul Bloom

Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.

— Sai Baba

“If a university’s colors were blue and pink, they could be the Fighting Sunsets.”

— Jarod Kintz

With the help of technology, teachers will be leaders in the transformation of education around the world.

— Craig R. Barrett

“going through life without an education. Tomorrow, I think I'll go to the community college and”

— Various

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

— George W. Bush

You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.

— Morgan Wootten

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.

— Brian Eno

I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.

— Winston Churchill

College isn't necessary for everybody and it's only from what you put into it what you go there for.

— Tom Hanks

To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.

— Ernest L. Boyer

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

— John Strachan