Education Quotes · Page 493

The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.

— Koichi Tanaka

Grads need to remember that it's [showcases] just a jumping off point for their career, not the defining moment.

— Rachel Hoffman

“Without improvement in education, how can the economics of the world improve?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

— Alexander Pope

My family thought it was insanity for me to go into the theater rather than to get an education.

— Clarice Taylor

Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education.

— Eli Broad

A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect.

— Bel Kaufman

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.

— Roddy Doyle

The study of yoga makes me inspired. And then the teaching of yoga makes it that much more real. The sense that…

— Rodney Yee

I would hide behind my parents' legs at social events, I was even shy in front of my sisters. I was a…

— Ben Fogle

I find teaching to be a great way to keep everything in perspective and to help give back. It's also a lot…

— Channing Dungey

Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world…

— Michel de Montaigne

Even within traditional universities there has always been debate about whether it wouldn't be better to focus on only one course at…

— Philip Greenspun

For me, the hardest part is taking lessons, and it's hard teaching an old dog new tricks, so part of my re-teaching…

— Eric Hernandez

America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our…

— Colin Powell

Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies,…

— Aldo Leopold

Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every…

— Anonymous

For me, the road had been rocky at times, triumphant too, but along the way I had never wavered in my dedication…

— Bill Walsh

“Freire calls the traditional relationship of teacher and student "banking education". In this dysfunctional, oppressive system, the teacher retains control and takes…

— BookRags

For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I felt I ought not to be wasting time, and I hurried to graduate from high school to enroll at UCSD. I…

— Bruce Beutler

The education of youth should be watched with the most scrupulous attention. [I]t is much easier to introduce and establish an effectual…

— Noah Webster

What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers…

— Michael Gove

Education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you…

— Dean Kamen

I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.

— Erykah Badu

I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.

— Charles Best

I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.

— Mia Wasikowska

I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.

— Anne Truitt

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

— Shelley Berman

Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know.

— John G. Miller

“the key is to learn new things, rather than trying to extinguish what we have already learned.”

— Niklas Torneke

Growing up, I was going to school for broadcast journalism. I wanted to be Oprah.

— Eva Gutowski

What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone.

— Clayton Christensen

When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.

— Rene Redzepi

For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent.

— Samuel Foote

National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

— John Sterling

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere…

— Frank McCourt

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.

— Miroslav Vitous

I'm going to grow up and I'm going to learn a lot of new things.

— Nick Bosa