Education Quotes · Page 404

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

— James A. Garfield

We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.

— Nikki Giovanni

One of the best investments we can make in a childs life is high-quality early education.

— Barack Obama

Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education,

— Eduardo J. Padron

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

— Anna Deavere Smith

“Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.”

— Anonymous

He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.

— Richard Whately

I think you can learn from pretty much everybody if you just open your eyes.

— Cesaro

Fiction writers learn about the development of metaphor, the use of rhythm, the way that language is compacted in order to express…

— Edward Hirsch

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to…

— Maria Montessori

“Those who looked with revulsion at the oppressive might of her arms, were obliged to marvel at the egalitarian nature of her…

— A. H. Septimius

I'm consumed with tech - medical, computational, impossible tech. So, I don't know exactly what I'll wind up doing, where I'll go…

— Justine Bateman

Economic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent in early childhood development provide extraordinary return on investment-16% for high quality programs

— Robert Greenwald

I don't necessarily want a higher education, I want a wider education. I want to know everything and experience everything.

— Sixto Rodriguez

Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go…

— Stephen Leacock

I study my competition for at least an hour a day. I get on the Internet, I look at what they doing,…

— Freddie Gibbs

“They're trying to breed a nation of techno-peasants. Educated just enough to keep things going, but not enough to ask tough questions.…

— Michael Flynn

“I've always thought that good teaching is about illumination. Sure, we teach things kids might not know, but a lot of the…

— R.J. Palacio

What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have people under some…

— Robert Jay Lifton

My father had four jobs every summer. He taught driver's education. He sold World Book Encyclopedias. He sold life insurance. He worked…

— Kelvin Sampson

My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how…

— Vik Muniz

I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him…

— Anonymous

“Grundtvig believed that national identity was about a sense of belonging, that Denmark should not pursue outer grandeur but seek prosperity in…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

All over the world, as governments retreat from their traditional duty to foster the common good and reconceive of themselves as mere…

— J. M. Coetzee

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

— Marva Collins

I don't believe some arbitrary line should preclude parents getting the best education possible for that child.

— Tate Reeves

My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students.

— Dana Spiotta

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

— Bill O'Reilly

I found that I can never know enough, and that many times the best form of education is through communication.

— Jessica Mendoza

When one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.

— Lord Chesterfield

“A substandard education will always result in a substandard nation.”

— Aubrey Priest

Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.

— Horace Mann

Education is not an end to itself. You need to know algebra but also how to navigate the world.

— Sal Khan

“It is not by insulting people that we teach them. - On Disrespect”

— Lamine Pearlheart

The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author Himself is far better.

— Charles Spurgeon

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

— Northrop Frye

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

— Samuel Butler

“Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, police grammar on the Internet.”

— Ruadhán J. McElroy

No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.

— Mike Huckabee

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

— Pat Conroy