Education Quotes · Page 597

Setting up a college fund would be a great way to redirect the tangible evidence of Daddy's love.

— Emily Yoffe

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

— W. H. Auden

First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.

— Sheryl Sandberg

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.

— Horace Mann

From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.

— Mary McLeod Bethune

I find that through the study of women, you get to the heart - the truth - of the culture.

— Shirin Neshat

I actually didn't mind school, and I enjoyed university and college.

— Freida Pinto

The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void no matter how large.

— Hugh Nibley

In the war against breast cancer, we have the ability to arm ourselves with knowledge and education is a powerful tool. By…

— Diahann Carroll

Moral values have been thrown out the window. Christianity is out the window. And that's wrong. Parents should be at home, teaching…

— Albert Belle

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

As a father, husband of a schoolteacher and governor of Louisiana, I am committed to improving education for all children in Louisiana.

— John Bel Edwards

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined…

— Karl Jaspers

The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of…

— George Washington

The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to…

— Benjamin Rush

The study of geography is about more than just memorizing places on a map. It's about understanding the complexity of our world,…

— Barack Obama

“In some parts of the church, the Apocalypse of John (the book of Revelation) was flat out rejected as containing false teaching,…

— Bart D. Ehrman

The sum and substance of my teaching is this: Don't be dishonest to your vital breath; worship that only, abide in that…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Differences across social lines in schooling aspirations—initially those of parents and later those of children—are one of the ways the long shadow…

— Karl Alexander

As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human species; and…

— Lord Chesterfield

In my teaching and consulting practice, I encourage people to learn to experiment with confidence and to see themselves as scientists in…

— Stewart D. Friedman

It is with all these qualities that we must stand before God and intervene on behalf of those who do not have…

— Martin Luther

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing says 'dropping out of society' like learning the banjo.

— Daniel Roth

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

— Mark Twain

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

— Bunker Roy

Going to public school is like living in bubble, you have no concept of what other people do.

— Thighpaulsandra

“Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery.”

— Jim Harrison

“Since our school went MiNet blind, it’s for seriously more like 1836 than 2036.”

— Megan McCafferty

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

— Henry Ford

I don't want to be just sitting on the couch in front of the TV all the time. I want to be…

— Robert Covington

Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.

— Thomas Jefferson

“teachers choose materials, they consider materials’ individuality; unusual”

— Ann Lewin-Benham

The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.

— William Wordsworth

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. --Mark Twain

— Anonymous

As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.

— John Vanbrugh

That person you look up to and aspire to be like was once learning the fundamentals.

— Louis Gibzen

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

— David Horowitz