Education Quotes · Page 603

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

— Goldwin Smith

Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.

— Samantha Morton

“As a teacher, I do not only explain concepts; my job is to inspire too.”

— Alaa Alghamdi

The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.

— Joichi Ito

It must be the aim of education to teach the citizen that he must first of all rule himself.

— Winthrop W. Aldrich

We must open the doors of opportunity. We must equip our people to walk through those doors.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

In the best classrooms, grades are only one of many types of feedback provided to students.

— Anonymous

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

— Confucius

We are going to be working very hard on the inner cities having to do with education, having to do with crime.…

— Donald Trump

First day of school WALKS INTO CLASS ROOM. SEES WHO'S IN IT. STOPS AT THE DOOR. AND YOU'RE THINKING: YOU'VE GOT TO…

— Anonymous

In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world…

— Daniel Greenberg

...the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party... was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study.

— Adolf Hitler

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and…

— Bill Delahunt

I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating…

— Susan Orlean

If schooling becomes little more than preparation for the job market and consumption, it cannot produce socially responsible and altruistic citizens.

— Guy Standing

First of all, I hated the medical profession. Medical education in Egypt was taken from the British, French, colonial educational system. And…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“Alas!' replied Maître Mouche, 'she must be trained to take her part in the struggle of life. One does not come into…

— Anatole France

[As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those…

— Bjork

There are the fundamental core values of the Democratic Party, which is to work to grow the economy, to create jobs, to…

— Nancy Pelosi

“You are following Jesus and shaping our world in the power of the Spirit. And when the final consummation comes, the work…

— N.T. Wright

Studying doesn't have to happen in a silo. It can be a social experience. You can engage with your friends and family…

— Eric Lefkofsky

Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to…

— Patricia Reilly Giff

“We learn best when we care about what we are doing, when we have choices. We learn best when the work has…

— Dennis Littky

“What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.”

— Anonymous

One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.

— Richard Brookhiser

We all struggle to find our place, and schools can be cruel to kids who aren't part of a pack.

— Trudie Styler

I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language.

— Stephen King

I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

— Michel de Montaigne

Sure education is valuable in any respect regardless of what field you are in.

— Marv Levy

Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

— Gertrude Atherton

Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.

— John Maynard Keynes

We need the best education system in the United States. The best system, not the most expensive.

— Bruce Brown

“we can learn only from our “betters.” We must know who they are and how to learn from them.”

— Charles Van Doren

Even the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him.

— Stephen Mitchell

Every successful business professional I know is constantly learning, reading, growing in their field.

— Rachel Hollis

Children thrive and grow in schools best when they're enjoying being with their friends and teachers.

— Gavin Williamson

I'm really fascinated by other directors' methods. I've done a lot of learning by observation.

— Marianne Elliott

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

— Miguel De Unamuno