Education Quotes · Page 295

“Much to be preferred to boxing are fencing and revolver-practice, judo and study of poisons.”

— Robert Aickman

“Graduate school introduces student to extensive knowledge search.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Work, work, and work to obtain education. Later, your education will work for you”

— Dr Dorah Diale

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.

— John Dewey

And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night ...

— William Shakespeare

I didn't do much in things mechanical in high school, except learn to square dance and other such activities.

— Jim Peebles

Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline.

— Sathya Sai Baba

“Why is it, Miranda,’ she whispered, ‘that such a sweet pretty creature is a schoolteacher – of all dreary things in the world . . .?”

— Joan Lindsay

I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of…

— Edward Norton

The only way to know everything is to learn how to think, how to ask questions, how to navigate the world. Students…

— Phoebe Gloeckner

The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery,…

— Ellen Key

Show me a Professor of Education, especially a Professor of E-learning, who lectures, and I'll show you a hypocrite who doesn't read…

— Donald Clark

“One of the most essential teachings of Buddhism is an understanding that where you are at this moment is exactly where you…

— Michael Williams

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is…

— Peter Drucker

If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not…

— Alma Gluck

“The human machine is the only medium by which the soul and the mind connect with the material world, and this marvelous…

— Orison Swett Marden

I used to watch Oprah Winfrey, and whenever she used to lose weight, I used to be like, 'How's she losing it?…

— Fat Joe

School leadership has been identified as another critical element of student success, and subsequently enough resources and training should be provided to…

— Shaheen Mistri

I know there are some reasons to suspect me: after all, I have education in computer security and was a hobby hacker…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

“When grown-ups asked you to sit in a circle, they were usually about to tell you something you didn't want to hear.…

— Annie Barrows

Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime;…

— Lydia Sigourney

“They did a study and found that countless men would choose gambling over love if given the chance. Even more would choose…

— Pete Wentz

Today's family is built like a pyramid; with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the…

— Anonymous

Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation.

— Isaac Asimov

Learn to appreciate what you have before time forces you to appreciate what you had.

— Zayn Malik

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

— William Godwin

Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.

— Julie Walters

For the weak who seek power it'll bring, infallible the power, knowledge is king.

— Kool Moe Dee

The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.

— John Katzenbach

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

— Sargent Shriver

As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work.

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere.

— Shunryu Suzuki

I never played a round when I didn't learn something new about the game.

— Ben Hogan

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.

— Charles Caleb Colton

I'd like to see college debt levels drop by a lot, but I'm not quite sure what the best way to do…

— Kevin Drum

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.

— Camille Paglia

I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

— Yao Ming

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.

— Nicholas Negroponte