Education Quotes · Page 549

“I don’t understand. Why can’t she just be like the other teachers? Why does she have to care?”

— Tabitha Suzuma

Well, now, some people learn a little quicker than others. It's nice to learn fast but it's nice to take your time…

— James Agee

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

— Marjane Satrapi

I was never good at school and was always fighting in the streets.

— Sammo Hung

I'd love to take up organic vegetable gardening, do anything that involves learning.

— Sudha Kongara

I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.

— Anonymous

Whatever earnings I got from winning this silver medal, part will be used for my college education.

— Hidilyn Diaz

We're asking schools to look at kids as partners in education.

— Jill Vialet

You can go to school and learn and that works for some people. But I think the best kind of learning is…

— Charlie Heaton

Germany, South Korea - these are all countries that are investing massively in education. We've got to do the same thing in…

— Barack Obama

The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal…

— Hugh Mackay

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men...They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal…

— Robert Owen

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and…

— Morgan Freeman

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's…

— Bo Jackson

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

— Robert Morgan

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed…

— Jane Austen

In my opinion instruction is very purposeless for such individuals who do no want merely to collect a mass of knowledge, but…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

When I was energy and climate change secretary I sat around a cabinet table with Gove, and he couldn't help playing to…

— Ed Davey

What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to…

— Miss Read

“It could be said that a liberal education has the nature of a bequest, in that it looks upon the student as…

— Wendell Berry

By fully committing to our public education system and engaging holistically from cradle to career, we can guarantee that all of our…

— Stacey Abrams

“One day the English language is going to perish. The easy spokenness of it will perish and go black and crumbly —…

— Nicholson Baker

“Master Palaemon's hand, dry and wrinkled as a mummy's, groped until it found mine. "Among the initiates of religion it is said,…

— Gene Wolfe

“epistemological appreciation of the profundity of what the Internet offers humanity as a model of a learning institution. To initiate and exemplify…

— Cathy N. Davidson

I have no skills. The only thing I could possibly do is teach.

— Victor Garber

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world.

— Dalai Lama

“The Religious person follows the teachings of their Church, The Spiritual person follows the Guidance of their Soul.”

— Non Nomen

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

— John Wooden

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

— Neil Postman

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education.

— John Monash

The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped.

— Theodore Roethke

I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.

— Lydia Davis

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.

— Phyllis Schlafly

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

— S. I. Hayakawa

“Instead of making prisoners out of our students, we ought to make students out of our prisoners.”

— Paul W. Silver

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

— Gary Sinise

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

— Viktor E. Frankl