Education Quotes · Page 628

“School is a hospital where people recover from ignorance; life is a hospital where people recuperate from arrogance.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

The student learns rules but all the rules in the world never make a picture.

— Howard Pyle

“Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I love working with kids and helping others, so I feel like a career in teaching would be perfect.

— Caroline Wozniacki

I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina,

— Arne Duncan

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

— Pat Oliphant

I like to think about the genre, the essay or the memoir, as much as I enjoy writing within its fluid parameters.…

— Jill Talbot

What you need to learn how to do is analyze situations and do differential diagnoses and understand the principle and the concepts…

— Leroy Hood

If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I feel strongly that degrees are really valuable to people, and having MOOCs allow for credit down the line will increase the…

— Daphne Koller

“My father taught us to learn as much as possible of any tongue we came across. He says it’s better than money…

— Ken Follett

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

— George Bernard Shaw

A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and…

— Stephen Fry

“You can plan the teaching but you can't predict the learning, so the teaching plan (and the teacher) must always be flexible…

— Paul Harris

I know you don't believe in god and that's ok teach is own, but you gotta believe in something, something more than…

— Abiix

We're progressing on a lot of fronts, but on the aspect of your responsibility - just the very basics of how we…

— Michal Rovner

There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed…

— Miyamoto Musashi

Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your…

— Peter Abelard

“Our current education system was created in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and was modeled after the new factories of the…

— Robert Epstein

Storytelling is a universal: every culture does it. There's a reason our religious books aren't simply a list of shall-and-shall-nots. Morals and…

— Kameron Hurley

Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view…

— John Dewey

“As Mary delivered what was to be her last lecture about the Galapagos Islands, she would be stopped mid-sentence for five seconds…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one.

— Nikki Giovanni

It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.

— Augustus De Morgan

Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

— James D. Watson

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

— William Lyon Phelps

Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do.

— Andy Hargreaves

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

— Petronius

The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Sometimes you have to learn what love is NOT before you truly figure what Love is.

— Anonymous

Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in.

— John Dewey

Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

— Wayne Dyer

Apparently magazine; giving you the latest bullshit since high school began

— Sacha-Leigh Smith

“Learn from the past but use the present to create the future.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education is the single most important job of the human race.

— George Lucas

“Belonging to the working class is the economy’s punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.

— Bayard Taylor