Education Quotes · Page 880

In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting…

— Adam Kirsch

Whatever new threats and challenges may emerge, our nation will be able to face them squarely, deal with them, and yet allow…

— Donald Rumsfeld

“If you think of yourself as a follower of Christ’s teachings, if you consider yourself a good person, you are morally obligated…

— Oliver Markus Malloy

Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was…

— Richard Russo

We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon,…

— John Taylor Gatto

“In truth, nothing could be more opposed to the purely aesthetic interpretation and justification of the world which are taught in this…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever…

— Anonymous

The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people…

— Mark Steyn

The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally…

— Maria Montessori

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a…

— Jane Goodall

What happens from about 1954 to the late 1980s, is that we see a huge wave of optimism that school desegregation is…

— Dana Goldstein

This is not a zero-sum game. We know that if we provide access and education, particularly where there are gaps in the…

— Karen Mills

“A primary purpose of Judeo-Christianity has not been to move us toward a community where the teachings of someone like Jesus -…

— Derrick Jensen

Little miss is taught by her mamma that she must never speak before she is spoken to. On this she sits bridling…

— Sarah Fielding

When I sit with students, I do not just want to help them solve their problems. I want to find a moment…

— Jack Kornfield

A Christian is not a person who believes in his head the teachings of the Bible. Satan believes in his head the…

— John Piper

“In Finland, all education schools were selective. Getting into a teacher-training program there was as prestigious as getting into medical school in…

— Amanda Ripley

Now, a good education is about so much more than just learning geometry or memorizing dates in history. All of that is…

— Michelle Obama

“It is my opinion that education is a key component to peace and progress. Despite their arrogant claims to have all the…

— Tommy Rodriguez

“LEARN FROM THE MASTERS: Mark Twain once said, “Show, don’t tell.” This is an incredibly important lesson for writers to remember; never…

— Colin Nissan

I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

“Preparation for the test was Herculean, requiring months of intense study. Even though she’d been an impeccably skilled, compassionate doctor, beloved by…

— Judith Orloff

Early childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let's not…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the…

— Germaine Greer

A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“Gen. Matthew Ridgeway "intended not to impose his will on his men, but to allow the men under him to find something…

— David Halberstam

“If I think too hard about it, I get lost...He should probably be here instead of me. But the thing is--I'm really…

— ROWELL RAINBOW

It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics,…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“…Or he could choose life. At that pivotal moment, it occurred to him that with all his schooling in theology he had,…

— Richard Paul Evans

It only takes about 50 contact hours to transmit basic literacy and math skills well enough that kids can be self-teachers from…

— John Taylor Gatto

Schools shouldn't have to choose between serving a student with special needs or cutting an art class, laying off teachers or using…

— Clint Smith

I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the…

— Carl Rogers

“When I had no books and had to learn everything I needed off by heart, and when I had to hide what…

— Jeanette Winterson

I spent many years in college studying English literature. I was on the verge of attending grad school to get a Ph.D.…

— Caterina Fake

The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself…

— Max Stirner

Take the example of my daughter. A lot of people were speaking out about education when the Taliban were bombing schools in…

— Ziauddin Yousafzai

The importance of the Beats is twofold: first, they act out a critique of the organized system that everybody in some sense…

— Paul Goodman

“It takes a heavy commitment to quality education for all to avoid that stratification of society, those needless degrees of separation. But…

— William H. Calvin

“I also spoke about the kid who can’t be bothered to get A’s in every class in high school because they’re actually…

— William Deresiewicz

Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered…

— Tom Peters