Education Quotes · Page 391

What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.

— John Dewey

If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs.

— Paul Vallas

Cross-cultural learning and studying abroad can be transformative.

— Amal Clooney

I studied photography in high school, and straight away, I knew it was something I was interested in.

— Brooklyn Beckham

“Not to commit any sin, to do good, and to purify one’s mind, that is the teaching of (all) the Awakened.”

— Anonymous

To be honest, I don't think we were taught much of anything in school.

— Ashley Zukerman

Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.

— Confucius

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

— William Morris

No child should be expelled from preschool. And so we are calling on school districts around the country to end that practice.…

— Valerie Jarrett

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that…

— Anonymous

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education.…

— Charles Barkley

Societies tend to presume that poor people are unable to handle money. If they had any, people reason, the poor and homeless…

— Rutger Bregman

You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're…

— George Pataki

Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way…

— Benjamin Disraeli

The most trusted way to keep moving up that value chain is to keep investing in individuals - to help them grow…

— Andrew Ng

And how are you going to make education easy? You might as well try to build an athlete by keeping him in…

— Edgar Pangborn

I grew up with a single pair of shoes until I grew into the next size. My parents believed in the American…

— Julie Sweet

The majority of small-holder farmers in Africa are women and, in urban areas, you're primarily looking at women-led households. So we can't…

— Ertharin Cousin

I think we should allow for schools within schools, where 100 out of 500 kids may be organized by the way they…

— Seymour Papert

I kind of stumbled on the material for 'An Education' and thought it would make a good movie, and one of the…

— Nick Hornby

“Far from helping students to develop into mature, self-reliant, self-motivated individuals, schools seem to do everything they can to keep youngsters in…

— Alfie Kohn

Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize.…

— Robert B. Parker

I do think that we'd do better if we just offered all the bureaucrats in the Department of Education very attractive early…

— Seymour Papert

“However, not only are fortunes equal in America, equality extends to some degree to intelligence itself. I do not think that there…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Wherever you go, you have to learn off players who you play with and who you are up against.

— Tammy Abraham

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

— Dan Rather

If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.

— Alex Faickney Osborn

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

— John Lancaster Spalding

“Why waste time learning when ignorance is instantaneous. ---Hobbes”

— Bill Waterson

New Mexico's children deserve a safe and modern learning environment that empowers them to reach their full potential.

— Ben Ray Lujan

A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

— Russell Green

Our schools are not geared toward building, preparing kids for the modern economy.

— Davis Guggenheim

“My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence. Me? I study natural stupidity.”

— Anonymous

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for…

— Maimonides

Every time you ride, your either teaching or un-teaching your horse.

— Gordon Wright

“Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions.”

— Bill Allin

American universities have never considered academic merit the sole criterion for admittance.

— Michael J. Knowles

Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach .

— Peter Drucker

All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future

— Max Tegmark

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

— Luke Ford