Education Quotes · Page 527

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

— David Puttnam

“If we throw blankets over our children's dreams, we darken their world and extinguish their desire to live.”

— Suzy Kassem

I come from a family of educationists and both my parents as well as my younger brother and his wife are teachers.

— Jaideep Ahlawat

I've learned more about animals just by reading to my kid than I ever did studying.

— James Holzhauer

Teacher's Retirement Motto: I Used to Teach. Now I Have No Class.

— Anonymous

For a long time, I have been inclined to start a school for the talented children.

— Sivamani

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

— James Tobin

Free education and health care are essential for the welfare of the population.

— Jose Ramos-Horta

“Better than money and fame, teaching martial arts to your children; giving them your time and confidence, is the best inheritance”

— Soke behzad Ahmadi

I work in a mix of areas and am informed by them all: child development, psycholinguistics, education, and most especially, cognitive neuroscience.

— Maryanne Wolf

The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual…

— Bertrand Russell

Most people believe that schools were good enough when they were children and that they are good enough now. But the dynamic…

— Diane Ravitch

A little learning is a dangerous thing. I must say that Rush Limbaugh is increasingly becoming a warning to kids of the…

— Arianna Huffington

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so…

— Janet Napolitano

Curiosity is missing. Curiosity in particular is something that the system, not only the educational system but, the parental... what you do…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift." George Amberson/ Jake…

— Stephen King

I work under three umbrellas: entertainment, education, and entrepreneurship. Of course the entertainment fragment speaks for itself because I'm in Chicago. However,…

— Eddie George

“A recent study in the American Journal of Epidemiology followed 123,216 subjects over fourteen years and found that men who spent more…

— Scott Jurek

“The idea that someone is more knowledgeable simply because of the greater amount of time they have spent on this Earth is…

— Noah Reznik

You know, my father was a great encouragement for me because he spoke out for women's rights, he spoke out for girl's…

— Malala Yousafzai

Apollo without Dionysus may indeed be a well-informed, good citizen but he's a dull fellow. He may even be 'cultured,' in the…

— Jerome Bruner

“Real education is a radical process. It thumps you on the head until everything you know makes no sense anymore. Then you…

— Debbie Millman

“study by Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow. In this study, a group of management consultants were asked to disconnect for a…

— Cal Newport

How do we create jobs for so many Americans who are feeling pushed out, not just left out, pushed out of the…

— Hillary Clinton

If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance.

— Sterling W Sill

Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

— Maria Montessori

Families homeschool for different reasons, in unique situations, using a variety of methods.

— Lisa Whelchel

“S.W.I.N.E - "Students wildly indignant about nearly everything”

— Al Capp

“The best practice is to be around people who absolutely disagree. Grace in conflict is a study in love.”

— Bryant McGill

I love to travel and I love to teach, so I combined the two.

— Royce Gracie

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

— Andrew Jackson

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

— Baltasar Gracian

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

— Anonymous

Whenever I wasn't working, I had my butt back in normal school.

— Tahj Mowry

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

— Mark Twain

If you would learn what God thinks about money, you have only to look at those to whom he has given it.

— Dorothy Parker

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

— Ellen Wilkinson

We are all one - and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way.

— Bayard Rustin

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

— Benjamin Franklin

A long project is like a secret houseguest, hidden in your study, waiting to be fed and visited.

— John Hollander