Education Quotes · Page 463

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

— William Glasser

We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.

— Wendy Davis

“In essence the journey to wisdom is a study of self, The conscious, sub-conscious and unconscious self.”

— Drishti Bablani, Wordions

“The real education is the reality of how well you live life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook.

— James W. Loewen

We owe it to our students to provide the best, high quality public education in Missouri.

— Mike Parson

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

— Manuel Puig

The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

— John Naisbitt

Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable…

— William Vickrey

Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor,…

— Brigham Young

See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches…

— Brigham Young

In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to…

— Peter Diamandis

“Here is a quote I used to post on the chalkboard once and a while for my students: Education is not going…

— Miles Cobbett

Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The fact I have an education forms my lyrical style, I'm sure. I studied the social sciences, history, stuff like that. I…

— Dean Wareham

School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull…

— John Taylor Gatto

I understand now my father really thought he was doing me good. Education means a lot to Palestinians. We’ve become some of…

— Suheir Hammad

When you're fund-raising for schools, then something's wrong. We seem to have lost some sort of sense of what the common good…

— Lewis Black

[Microscopic] evidence cannot be presented ad populum. What is seen with the microscope depends not only upon the instrument and the rock-section,…

— Thomas George Bonney

The well-meaning people who talk of education as if it were a substance distributable by coupon in large or small quantities never…

— George Sampson

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

— John Ruskin

“I have become distrustful of teachings and learning, and I have little faith in words that come to us from teachers. But,…

— Hermann Hesse

“She began to study with a teacher of teachers, whom they brought for that purpose from the city of Mompox, and who…

— Gabriel García Márquez

What I want to see in teacher training is more talk about character education and getting teachers to really think about it.…

— Nicky Morgan

You need to learn to improve, and I can say that I learn something every day in the gym.

— Yoel Romero

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

— William Butler Yeats

The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.

— Clark Kerr

A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

— Saint Augustine

You have to learn when to give up, when to walk away, even if it hurts, especially if it hurts...

— Ryaj Ablando Catayas

Musical theater, I think, is something one learns both from studying what went before and then actually doing it.

— Stephen Schwartz

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Discipline is positive. Discipline is training. Teaching and discipline are inseparable.

— Jean Fleming

Knowledge is power. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

— Kofi Annan

“It is the worst people in your life that teach you the best lessons.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

— Will Rogers

Lets hire another 100,000 math and science teachers to make sure we maintain a technological lead.

— Barack Obama

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.

— William Godwin

Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

— Bob Riley

“Learn how to use people, their time, their money, their knowledge and their skills for your own benefit.”

— Prashant Chauhan

The good teachers are bailing out. Education is very important… This should be the centerpiece on the table of Texas.

— Kinky Friedman