Education Quotes · Page 467

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.

— Madeleine L'Engle

University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds.

— Michael O'Leary

“12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

— Karl Kraus

“The problem with patience is that we are not patient enough to learn it.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

A lot of people who were studying with me turned out to be journalists or worked in big institutions.

— Simon Mignolet

“Student, doctor, chemist, butler—he had more facets than a chandelier.”

— Betina Krahn

“Chocolate is medicinal. I just did another study that confirms it.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at…

— James Henry Breasted

School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills…

— Jules Henry

No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon…

— Ludwig von Mises

To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to…

— Jose Marti

“With any spiritual teaching, we are working with rounded-off truths, because we cannot work directly with the whole truth—it’s too big.”

— Shepherd Hoodwin

The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the…

— Tom Stoppard

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it…

— George Bernard Shaw

Everything from who sits on your local board of education to the prosecutors and judicial appointments in your area and much more…

— Al Sharpton

I have this very kind of like heterodox idea of what an education is, what underpins identity. I don't think I'm very…

— Lydia Polgreen

Health education emphasizing risks is a form of pedagogy, which, like other forms, serves to legitimize ideologies and social practices. Risk discourse…

— Deborah Lupton

“A fascinating study done by Professor Vicki Medvec reveals the relative importance of subjective attitudes over and above objective circumstances. Medvec studied…

— Mark Batterson

Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of…

— Anonymous

From Calcutta has gone forth a living stream of knowledge in many branches of study. It is inspiring to think of the…

— C. V. Raman

“The only thing I knew for sure is I hadn’t slept in ten years. Not really. I’d been fighting my own monster…

— Tucker Elliot

“In a permeable classroom, schools use their community and beyond to learn by using the resources, inspiration, and environment beyond the walls…

— Grant Lichtman

“Let the light shine into your Soul and teach you the ancient teachings of the Master within. Awaken to your purpose. Why…

— Ulonda Faye

If some student belonging to weaker section of society suffers distress, humanity says it must be addressed.

— Arun Jaitley

After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.

— Sigourney Weaver

One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.

— Gloria Estefan

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.

— Steven Pinker

The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.

— Reza Aslan

“To failure at something is an attempt to succeed. Be strong and try again.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Everything you can learn from is an opportunity to become stronger.

— Daniel Ricciardo

“If you live as if you know nothing you offer yourself the opportunity to learn everything.”

— Kay Whitley

I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.

— Ava DuVernay

“Let us give future generations the gift of Earth citizenship by first giving it to ourselves.”

— Ilchi Lee

The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law.

— Mario Cuomo

When I came out of high school, I was a little kid. I didn't understand the business.

— Gerald Green

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

— Josh Billings

Studying is also important, but we must become humans first.

— Lee Jin-wook

Those who get lost on the way to school will never find their way through life.

— German Proverb