Education Quotes · Page 479

School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.

— Karl G. Maeser

Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.

— John Lanchester

“People don't learn when they're told, They should find out themselves”

— Paulo Coelho

I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.

— John Dewey

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

— Barack Obama

Learning to receive feedback from each other is what leadership is all about.

— Sheila Heen

“The world's greatest students are those who graduate from the University of Life.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have…

— James Dobson

As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education...…

— will.i.am

There is a belief that children drop out of school because they're needed by their families to work, or the little girls…

— Nicholas Negroponte

Every child is entitled to an academic education. But resilience, stickability, self-esteem - they need these things, too, and even more than…

— Nicky Morgan

“The English seem to relish unsystematic learning of this kind, in the same manner that they embarked upon "Grand Tours" of Europe…

— Peter Ackroyd

In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of…

— Karl Ferdinand Braun

There was no way I was going back to school to study anything for another three or four years. I was done…

— Chika Anadu

I don't have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they're useless, because I've had experience with drama schools, and have…

— David Mamet

“In our day and age, global society has been saturated with the wrong teaching of false positivity. The denial of darkness never…

— C. JoyBell C

I am still a student. My classmates study really hard, so I feel like I should too. But they always say things…

— Seohyun

“Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day. However, in the main, our churches today…

— Timothy Keller

I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works.…

— Dana Goldstein

If you're in Alabama, you're selling tax incentives - with all due respect to Alabama - because what else are you going…

— Phil Murphy

I'm always composing and trying to learn more about the business. In today's market, it's more important than ever to be self-sufficient…

— Antoniette Costa

The Alexander Technique gives us all things we have been looking for in a system of physical education: relief from strain due…

— Aldous Huxley

“And this means that, instead of always waiting for their needs to be satisfied by some external source, human beings can work…

— Wayne W. Dyer

In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas.

— Elizabeth Diller

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

— Benjamin Franklin

Practice making decisions and learning from them all day long.

— John Ortberg

Our most important education system is in the employees' own organization.

— Peter Drucker

Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.

— Mao Zedong

I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.

— Rachel Nichols

Education gives girls the knowledge, experience, and confidence to play their rightful role in society.

— Tedros Adhanom

“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.”

— Albert Einstein

“The real motivation for teachers is to play with you like puppets. You have to do everything they say!”

— Maher Osman

A good education is the most important gift we can give our young people.

— Nicola Sturgeon

Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset youll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.

— Brian Tracy

The education system, I think, is very tapped and very stupid.

— Lola Young

Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.

— Mark Kennedy

If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you're going to get a good education, we've got…

— Condoleezza Rice

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

— Anonymous

Parents don't believe that lifting life-chances in one school means reducing them in another.

— David Blunkett