Education Quotes · Page 317

Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.

— Alfie Kohn

“To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write. (VII,”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.

— Mahatma Gandhi

By magnifying and analyzing your missteps, you learn faster.

— Victor J. Glover

I had to learn to sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.

— L'Wren Scott

If you can't be what you want, you learn to be the thing's you're not

— Passenger

Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have always regarded the development of the individual as the only legitimate goal of education.

— Susan Jacoby

Education lays a strong foundation. I was keen on films, but my mother insisted on me finding all about the line I…

— Vaani Kapoor

We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds…

— Ryan White

We have had this massive effort on K-12 reform, raising standards, great teachers, great principals, turning around chronically failing schools, raising the…

— Arne Duncan

The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the…

— Herbert Croly

Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is…

— Edward de Bono

Imagine a world of nine billion people with clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, personalized education, top-tier medical care, and nonpolluting, ubiquitous…

— Peter Diamandis

“Prison education is a concept whose time has come. It is time to stop studying the issue and stop discoursing. It is…

— Christopher Zoukis

The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we…

— Frederick Lenz

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who…

— William Faulkner

What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums.…

— Guy Kawasaki

“Contained within a given lesson or particular technique is the essence of all techniques. You imitate and study a particular form to…

— H.E. Davey

I had a fascination with the roots of African American music. That would have been my first education in music. I had…

— Hozier

“Despite his brilliance, he missed a basic secondary education, for lack of scholarship funds. He believed that the rejection was due to…

— Tom Reiss

Oh, had I received the education I desired, had I been bred to the profession of the law, I might have been…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

“The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey…

— Plato

To do is hard, but to teach is still harder. Do not teach only to teach. Teach to improve the pupil. To…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students.

— Luke Ford

“If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a…

— Idries Shah

I learned through the UFC, which was a tough place to learn.

— Mike Perry

If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.

— Anna Seward

“Recognize that experience creates internalized learning that book learning can’t replace.”

— Ray Dalio

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

— Olive Schreiner

It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils.

— Niels Henrik Abel

If what you are learning is not making you better, then it is distracting you from becoming greater.

— Rey Mellomida

You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.

— Billy Joel

It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.

— Paulo Freire

“How the hardest lessons we have to learn are the ones that wind up costing us the most?”

— Nicole Williams

All throughout the episodes I've played Rhaenyra, she is getting a repeated education in grief.

— Emma D'Arcy

By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.

— Sai Baba

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

— William Osler

High school: when the football season is over, school spirit dies a little.

— Anonymous