Education Quotes · Page 585

No matter who tries to teach you lessons about life; You won't understand it until you go through it on your own.

— Pacifiersucker

Learn to do your own thinking - don’t let other people do it for you!

— Joyce Meyer

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

— Robin Williams

Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.

— Francis Chan

Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.

— Wendy Davis

My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

— Mark Twain

I don't think there are any students who should not be exposed to a basic financial literacy course.

— Ben Bernanke

“One of the most important tools in contemporary educational research is value added analysis.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

I'm an admitted Hillary fan-girl, but even the coldest hearted Republicans will have to admit that she has always wanted every American…

— Jessica Tarlov

A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

“Civilization as well as education takes a downward spiral when it ceases to ask "What is truth?" and concerns itself primarily with…

— Katherine Paterson

If cultural and educational problems are solved in line with the country's expediencies, other problems will easily be solved.

— Ayatollah Khomeini

We had the cost of college preventing people from thinking about college because they didn't want to be buried in debt. We…

— Miguel Cardona

When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of…

— Washington Irving

It is agreed that little girls should have a different physical education than little boys, but it is not admitted how much…

— Germaine Greer

“Why, then,' answered the squire, 'I am very sorry you have given him so much learning; for, if he cannot get his…

— Henry Fielding

When you're 14, 15, the most important thing in your life should be education, because that's what's going to set you up…

— Wilson Cruz

Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside…

— Karl Kraus

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms…

— Bertrand Russell

“It is wise to use titles for people in positions of power, higher education, seniority, or maturity, unless otherwise instructed. This may…

— Susan C. Young

We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the "developed" world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a…

— Ben Fountain

“Yale law professor Dan Kahan, the lead author on this study, attributes the tight correlation between “worldview” and acceptance of climate science…

— Anonymous

The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.

— J. Arthur Thomson

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

— Charles Stross

She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.

— Simon Hoggart

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

— Anonymous

Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

— Flea

The best part about working is that you never know what you're going to learn when you start out.

— Anne Hathaway

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

— Anonymous

All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

My worst subject in school was school, but it turns out I'm great at starting them.

— Bob Goff

Once you meet the right teachers, your talents will be discovered, improve and given more certainty.

— Terry Mark

I'll tell you, a lot of the success I've had has been a result of having a very good mathematics education.

— Scott Bessent

The best thing ever; is having a fire drill during your least favorite class.

— Anonymous

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.

— Carter G. Woodson

Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.

— Michel de Montaigne

I need to do psychology classes. That would be so interesting to me, studying people.

— Britney Spears

I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that.

— Van Morrison