Education Quotes · Page 602

Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.

— Anonymous

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.

— Will Rogers

“to teach is the best way to learn, but that the imperfect are the best teachers of the imperfect.”

— George MacDonald

Coming out of high school I was really given everything, never really had to work for anything.

— Dion Waiters

“Fear, boredom, and resistance--they all go to make what we call stupid children.”

— John Holt

I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they…

— Ken Livingstone

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

— Pierre Loti

If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

— Greg Mortenson

What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners…

— Septima Poinsette Clark

I am an entrepreneur, but not in the conventional sense. I have learnt business as time passed, but I do not have…

— Ekta Kapoor

Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as…

— Abraham Lincoln

In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of…

— Kenny Marchant

All theological lore is growing distasteful to me. All my recent excursions into such fields proves it to be a shifting, hypothetical,…

— Wilfred Owen

Ensuring every child in St. Louis has access to quality early childhood education that will set them up for future success is…

— Cori Bush

I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and…

— Karen Duffy

If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether…

— Anonymous

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding…

— Maria Montessori

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns…

— Herbert Hoover

Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I…

— Confucius

Even as the finite encloses an infinite series And in the unlimited limits appear, So the soul of immensity dwells in minutia…

— Jacob Bernoulli

“What is love? Is it a lightning bolt that instantaneously unites two souls in utter infatuation and admiration through the meeting of…

— Ivan Rusilko

“It is often said that the Buddha’s teaching is only a raft to help you cross the river, a finger pointing to…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

I think a part of me thought that I might be interested in academia because I really do love school. I mean…

— K. Flay

“The collective benefits of higher education will not be asserted unless the public can be engaged in defining them. A student’s future…

— Ellen Condliffe Lagemann

It is essential to view learning as a total community responsibility.

— John Abbott

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

“He was the Teacher, the world was his students, and class was about to begin.”

— James Patterson

The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools

— Bob Riley

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

— Ernest Dimnet

I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue… In brief, let me see in you an abyss of…

— Francois Rabelais

It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Teaching is what is technically known as a polymorphous activity; it quite literally takes many different forms.

— Paul Q. Hirst

This was a time of great intellectual excitement for me. Both college and law school opened up new worlds of ideas.

— Samuel Alito

Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place.

— Eugenie Scott

To learn means by practice, by inquiring, by analyzing to find out what is, not what was.

— Lobsang Tenzin

“The word 'teach' suddenly conveys a sense of menace that is foreign to me.”

— Anna Bayes

Education is about remembering stuff and I could never remember anything, so I didn't get an education.

— Shaun Ryder

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

— Rush Limbaugh

The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.

— Margaret Mead

...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.

— Friedrich Nietzsche