Education Quotes · Page 308

Engaging with your school as a unit of community is pretty powerful.

— Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other…

— Confucius

Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

If we want to recruit and keep the best educators, we need to pay them better.

— Roy Cooper

People with learning difficulties are often creative in different ways.

— Leo Sayer

Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I…

— William Goldman

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

— George Farquhar

“You have to learn how to take care of yourself. Who you need, is you. It was always about and for you.”

— Bryant McGill

I went to Dunbar High School, recognized as the best high school of the segregated era. The education enabled students from Dunbar…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

“He reaches out and trails his finger along a poster that says STAR in bubble letters. Safe, Tolerant, Accountable, Respectful-all the things…

— Jill Hathaway

“Learning, published by the MIT Press, present findings from current research on how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic…

— Carrie James

Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

When we tell girls that we expect them to pursue education and excel in education, we are changing the narrative and are…

— Tedros Adhanom

We've got to move beyond the idea that the public and private sectors are at odds. Government has to lay the groundwork…

— Sebastian Pinera

[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is…

— Harold Urey

The more you use soul communication, the higher level of communication you receive. The more you offer service, the higher your frequency…

— Zhi Gang Sha

A one year study by the Washington Post has documented 620 cases in which experimental drugs have been implicated in the deaths…

— Ted Gup

Religious teachings and teachers have conditioned us to think of faith as a magic catalyst that makes God work for us. In…

— Eric Butterworth

The teachers of small children are paid more than they were, but still far less than the importance of their work deserves,…

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It…

— Katherine Dunham

“In the main, the trouble with American education is that we have put into practice the educational philosophy expounded by John Dewey…

— Barry M. Goldwater

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test…

— Sugata Mitra

“He was indulgent to women and to the poor, oppressed by the weight of society. "The faults of women, children, and servants,"…

— Victor Hugo

“Since the dawn of education, the student considered as normal has been the student who puts up the least resistance to teaching,…

— Daniel Pennac

“In our state—no kidding—they are called Standards of Learning, or “SOLs.” (I don’t think anyone intended the joke.)”

— Barbara Kingsolver

I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“People don't learn when they're told, They should find out themselves”

— Paulo Coelho

Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.

— John Lanchester

Learning to receive feedback from each other is what leadership is all about.

— Sheila Heen

In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas.

— Elizabeth Diller

“The world's greatest students are those who graduate from the University of Life.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

— Barack Obama

The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.

— John Dewey

Nowadays, when a speaker tells the graduates that the future is theirs--is that a promise or a threat?

— Milton Berle

“I once heard philosophy defined as ‘the study of things that no one understands.”

— E. William Brown

A study found that being dumped triggers the same reaction in the brain as getting burned.

— Anonymous

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

— Guy Davenport

“The beauty of learning is that it liberates us from poverty.”

— Lailah GiftyAkita

“You can learn more about yourself by trying to see yourself from the perspective of others.”

— Saksit Sathanapong

If you want to learn what someone fears losing,watch what they photograph.

— Anonymous