Education Quotes · Page 550

“The chains had fallen from her leg, but not from her mind.”

— Margaret Landon

[I] learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.

— James Black

Children's ability to learn is infinite when they are engaged.

— Rohini Nilekani

“To find and keep love today, you have to learn the mystery of seduction.”

— Lebo Grand

The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

— George MacDonald

“She’d been a resourceful thief, a narcissistic Robin Hood who stole a rich education from white people and kept it.”

— Sherman Alexie

“It’s easy to game school, once you realize that the rules are bullshit and you can get around them.”

— Tiffany Haddish

The more auditions you go on, the more you will learn not to take it personally.

— Paula Abdul

We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the…

— Liam Fox

“But after a sojourn in the Adirondacks restored his health, he became persuaded of the curative powers of the mountain air and…

— Jennet Conant

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective.

— Jon Stewart

The universe has told us the most common types of planets are small planets, and our study shows these are exactly the…

— Debra Fischer

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Since my life as a prisoner has begun I have heard the teachings of the white man's religion, and in many respects…

— Geronimo

New Hampshire charter schools have proven themselves to be an integral part of our state's high-quality public education system for thousands of…

— Chris Sununu

“if you want to spend your life just proving other teachings wrong, then what you believe isn’t a belief, it’s being a…

— Qasim Rashid

“Union leaders essentially want the public to believe that all teachers are equal and deserve to be paid and treated that way—but…

— Glenn Beck

“Believe it or not, the secularists have even succeeded in passing laws that forbid the freedom of teaching about the global Flood…

— Ken Ham

My study of the wild gorilla is not yet finished, and even when it is complete, it will contribute only a small…

— Dian Fossey

Beating up on public schools is not just our nation's favorite blood sport, but also a favorite conversational entertainment of the well-off…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

I can do something about people who need me, who have been injured. So the biggest thing about being a doctor is…

— Fiona Wood

Liberals are not about choice; they are about imposition. The way they live, the way they believe, must be imposed on people,…

— Rush Limbaugh

Those in public office who do not love the people are thieves stealing salaries. Those who teach but do not themselves practice…

— Zicheng Hong

“Anyone can learn anything. What matters is if you want to.”

— Christina Daley

A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.

— John McCarthy

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

— John Ciardi

I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“It doesn’t require an education, Sergeant Beata, to see what’s right before your eyes. Use your head.” Beata”

— Terry Goodkind

Yazidis have gone through traumatic experiences, and without education, there is no future for the youth.

— Nadia Murad

To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

— Maria Montessori

“Brain research tells us that when the fun stops, learning often stops too. Most”

— Terry Marselle

“What are your drawn to?" ... "Language, Words, No, not teaching. Perhaps one day I'll write something.”

— Ellen Sussman

In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.

— Megyn Kelly

Each one, reach one. Each one, teach one. Until all are taught.

— Mark Victor Hansen

I would rather learn what it feels like to burn, than feel nothing at all.

— Ron Pope

We are the worst of fools if we do not teach every child to become truly expert, deep readers.

— Maryanne Wolf

Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.

— George Edward Woodberry

I have so many resources I can go to and as a player who wants to learn, I'm trying my best to…

— Donovan Mitchell

“Self study leads to improvisation and improvisation leads to evolution.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice