Education Quotes · Page 445

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

— Samuel Butler

Engaging with your school as a unit of community is pretty powerful.

— Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

People with learning difficulties are often creative in different ways.

— Leo Sayer

If we want to recruit and keep the best educators, we need to pay them better.

— Roy Cooper

The PhD student is someone who forgoes current income in order to forgo future income.

— Peter Greenberg

Life will teach you, but you have to live long enough to get those lessons.

— Cary Elwes

No matter what age you are, there's a lot of room for learning.

— Tony Bennett

Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so…

— Mike Quigley

“surrounded by students who were all folded easily on their seats, all flush with knowledge, not of the subject of the classes,…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a…

— Edward R. Murrow

“He that is not with his God is against Him...Hence, as there cannot be in any soul a non-Christian state which is…

— Robert Lewis Dabney

We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools, and now we're having weekly shootings practically. We had the 60s sexual…

— Christine O'Donnell

There are far too many ineffective teachers and, in particular, far too many truly terrible teachers who are harming children and poisoning…

— Whitney Tilson

I have often said that it doesn't matter to me if a student tells me he is a leader of the left,…

— Salvador Allende

This is always one of my big pet peeves is that 65% of NBA players, three years out of the NBA, are…

— Ben Howland

“Unless men may come to a reasonable, solid persuasion and conviction of the truth of the gospel, by the internal evidences of…

— Jonathan Edwards

“I like to remind my students that upon completing nursing school you know a little about everything, but not a lot about…

— Caroline Porter Thomas

Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I…

— Jack Bowman

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

In other words, the hidden subsidies [designed to help individuals seeking college degrees] are not helping those who most need help in…

— Sarah Jaffe

“Frederick Catherwood rightly says "The teaching ofthe bible would appear to be that it is not the amount of a man's wealth…

— Barry Asmus

I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations…

— Benjamin Franklin

Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing…

— John Dewey

I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

— William Shakespeare

One of the surest ways to avoid even getting near false doctrine is to choose to be simple in our teaching.

— Henry B. Eyring

“If you dont know learn how to be scared, you'll never really learn how to be brave.”

— Simon Holt

Learn to appreciate what you have, before youre forced to appreciate what you had.

— Boonaa Mohammad

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

And many to study so much are inclined, that utterly they fall out of their mind.

— Alexander Barclay

“Do not come into the study. Do not allow the children into the study. Keep the children calm. Keep the children safe.”

— Callie Hart

I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't…

— Wendy Davis

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.

— Rene Auberjonois

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

— Beatrix Potter

Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.

— Tom Paulin

The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.

— Maria Semple

I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.

— Kevin Kline

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

— Charles William Eliot

“Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world”

— Nelson Mandela

Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.

— Henry Edward Armstrong