Educational Quotes · Page 14

“Adversity is only yet another means to remind us of 'How Truly Awsome We All Are'!”

— W. O. Wainwright

Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.

— Elizabeth I

It's rare for people to genuinely try to understand what others are trying to say.

— Scott Berkun

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

— John Dewey

No child is racist. A child is born, and then they go through the educational system.

— KRS-One

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

— Jean Piaget

Alone we are smart. Together we are brilliant.

— Steven Anderson

One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same…

— P. J. O'Rourke

We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a…

— Emeril Lagasse

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

— Bill Gates

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

— George Bernard Shaw

International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere

— Koichiro Matsuura

A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise.

— Shinichi Suzuki

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

— John Dewey

No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as…

— Paulo Freire

The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed…

— Margaret Mead

There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed…

— C. Everett Koop

Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true…

— Albert Einstein

Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling…

— William James

So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make…

— Terence McKenna

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational…

— Mary J. Blige

I think that the sense of inefficacy and inevitability comes not from thinking the rich are going to have all the educational…

— Paul Solman

The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree…

— Stuart Wilde

Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to…

— Michel de Montaigne

Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's…

— J. William Fulbright

I think what Donald [Trump] is saying is that it's unacceptable to him that members of the African-American community - and I'm…

— Chris Christie

“The April forced ‘Resettlement’ of the villages of Long Phuoc, and Long Tan inflamed the already seething hatred of foreigners by the…

— Michael G. Kramer

We need a comprehensive renewal of the nursing care system in Germany, and quickly. The two-tier medical system must be abolished. Patients…

— Martin Schulz

In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right…

— Louis L'Amour

Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.

— Ram Dass

Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice.

— Diane Ravitch

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

— Remy de Gourmont

So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer.

— Anonymous

When we are confident, all we need is a little support.

— Andre Laurendeau

Our educational system needs to give equal importance to the intellect and the heart.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

— William James

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.

— Andy Hargreaves