Education Quotes · Page 405

A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.

— Plato

You can fail the life in school but never fail in the school of life

— Trishmonnie

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

— John C. Maxwell

Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.

— Bette Greene

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

— William J. Clinton

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.

— Robert Greene

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

— Benjamin Disraeli

It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently.

— Andre Maurois

It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful…

— Aristotle

“Do we really need a study on why people lie? They lie because it's easy, and cowards are good at "easy." Telling…

— Donna Lynn Hope

“During one five-year period, from 1995 to 2000, the southern half of the valley region lost 3,000 people with bachelor’s degrees while…

— Linda Marsa

Teach the kids. They need to learn how to handle, grow and multiply money. It's basic and should be taught at an…

— Bo Sanchez

A lot of Ivy League schools have presidents who are very politically active. And I don't think it has an impact on…

— Jerry Falwell, Jr

I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a…

— Dwight Yoakam

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

— John Updike

Screw up often; but screw up ahead of everybody else, and than learn as much, and than use it to make subsequent…

— Vinod Khosla

Whereas students minds used to be the chief concern of colleges and universities, it is now more their bank accounts (more accurately,…

— George Leef

The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I…

— John Irving

I went to a lot of different high schools. I had quite a sporadic schooling experience. I went to school in England…

— Alice Englert

Let's say hypothetically, knowing what we know now about public policy, that we could close the education gap so that it was…

— Barack Obama

It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more…

— H. L. Mencken

“My teacher's mind and my interest in youth has brought me to some renewed conclusions, and I pass them on earnestly to…

— Marion D. Hanks

“When it came time to announce the price of the new machine, Jobs did what he would often do in product demonstrations:…

— Walter Isaacson

I am in an extended self-directed course of study. That is, I am in control of my own life.

— Amber Benson

I went to the study room to study... But I just laid on the couch to sleep.

— Anonymous

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

— James Patterson

Education and knowledge without a positive character do not guarantee a better future.

— Lena

The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

— Leo Tolstoy

“If you do not have persistence then no amount of education, talent or genius can make up for it.”

— Stephen Richards

You always tend to learn whenever you fail. Even when you do good, you tend to learn a lot.

— Shreyas Iyer

I think I have a lot of learning to do, but that's what the game is for.

— Ryan Tannehill

Human experience throughout the ages has been enhanced through learning, information and communication.

— Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

— Dan Simmons

The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

— John Ruskin

Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.

— William Lyon Phelps

“When this was over, he'd have time to teach her the truth. He was always crazy when it came to her.”

— Kit Rocha

In high school, we would do improv. Me and my boy were, like, the stars of the class.

— Demetrius Shipp, Jr

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“An education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries.”

— Wendell Berry