Educational Quotes · Page 26

To be entertaining and educational and enlightening, all at once, this is a good goal to have.

— Jeffrey Lewis

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

— Jean Piaget

“Louis had learned to be suspicious of the word educational . It covered, after all, a multitude of sins.”

— Paul Russell

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

— Ben Parr

“We all should share our true passion for others, in order for us to create a harmless envioronment.”

— Saaif Alam

“If we only stopped to listen to them for a few minutes, kids could tell us that we move too fast, for…

— Anonymous

[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.

— Nora Ephron

Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.

— Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr

To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom…

— Sri Aurobindo

We have different levels of slavery. We've got educational slavery. All the major religions of the world, even Christianity and Islam, are…

— John Henrik Clarke

Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth, that haply the dissensions that divide…

— Bahá'u'lláh

The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent…

— Woodrow Wilson

“To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he…

— Anonymous

Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above…

— Michel de Montaigne

Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they…

— Anonymous

The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“It seems logical to suppose that history's pattern reflects innate differences among people themselves. Of course, we're taught that it's not polite…

— Jared Diamond

I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society…

— Helen Keller

Usually, being a volunteer organizer essentially means that I am part of a core base of individuals, that when we start a…

— Eugene Puryear

When we liberate the economic potential of women, we elevate the economic performance of communities, nations, and the world... There is a…

— Hillary Clinton

Schools, the institutions traditionally called upon to correct social inequality, are unsuited to the task; without economic opportunity to follow educational opportunity,…

— Kenneth Keniston

I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and…

— John Dewey

In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming…

— Boyd K. Packer

The reason educational spending in Texas is so low is because you don't have a state tax there, and that's why Texas…

— Kinky Friedman

Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.

— Oliver DeMille

[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the…

— William Feather

“If we are able to reach the critical point of a mountain, we would be able to easily to claim victory.”

— Saaif Alam

Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power.…

— Harry S. Truman

Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country

— Thomas Jefferson

I develop artificially intelligent technologies, along with educational and game software and let the business people take it where they will.

— Frederick Lenz

Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky; one has to foster the flash, and preserve the light. That…

— Sai Baba

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious,…

— Marva Collins

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.

— Thomas Jefferson

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.

— Sai Baba

It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our…

— Ruben Hinojosa

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

— Albert Einstein

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

— Dr. Seuss

In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land."

— Edward Teller