Education Quotes · Page 425

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

— Michael Morpurgo

“For the understanding of primitive Semitic vowel-sounds a study of Arabic is almost indispensable.”

— James John Courtenay

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

— Maya Lin

I graduated from Wayne State University, but there's a whole lot you don't learn in school.

— Sixto Rodriguez

There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.

— James Russell Lowell

Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.

— Alan Cohen

If you do something and it goes wrong, you learn from it and you move on.

— John Barrowman

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.

— Anonymous

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and…

— Arabella Weir

No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go…

— Gordon Brown

Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator,…

— John Engler

Some boys go to college and eventually succeed in getting out. Others go to college and never succeed in getting out. The…

— H. L. Mencken

By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will…

— Osman Rashid

Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the…

— Henry Ford

“Some lessons you learned by the book. Others you learned from cold hard experience. The latter may not be the best way…

— Maya Banks

“Someone did a study on the cell phone calls made from the Twin Towers as they fell. The question: Was there any…

— Rosie O Donnell

The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for…

— Amartya Sen

“We rely on our education, on our judgment and our intuition to make decisions, but sometimes we find ourselves in the most…

— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D

“If I were asked what education should give, I would say it should offer breadth of view, ease of understanding, tolerance for…

— Louis L'Amour

Don't send your kids to Baylor. And don't send your kids to [Texas] A&M... Texas A&M used to be a conservative university.…

— Tom DeLay

I like to study the question or the problem or the opportunity in hand, work with the team to come with the…

— Michael Corbat

In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may…

— Edward Bernays

“Both I and my troubles became the object of an interesting psychoscientific study undertaken by myself. What does Spinoza say in his…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.

— Seth Godin

Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

Your strongest ally or your greatest teacher may be sitting within reach, unbeknownst to you.

— Ian Somerhalder

Just showed up my professor in front of the whole class. I hate when people think Im stupid, I know what Im…

— Merle Anthony Rowland

“Be a smart learner. Learn from your mistakes and adjust your behavior accordingly.”

— Ehab Atalla

All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.

— Andy Hargreaves

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

— John Locke

“The first function of an art student is to observe, to study nature.”

— Kimon Nicolaides

We've got to do a better job with our kids. Teach good values, teach the fundamentals.

— Bobby Orr

Your enemies are your greatest teachers. They test you on forgiveness, strength, compassion, and faith in yourself.

— Anonymous

In school, no one teaches you to look for things that are right for you.

— Nicole Byer

Teaching is very fulfilling because every day I go home feeling like I helped people.

— Hilaria Baldwin

“Learn the art of bringing your dreams alive within your own reality.”

— Steven Redhead

There is no best teacher. Life itself is the teacher. There is no best method. All that matters is that it works.

— Frederick Lenz

“His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

“What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

— George Bernard Shaw