Education Quotes · Page 595

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

— Norman Cousins

Teachers say try your hardest to get a good job. When most of them have minimum wage drop out jobs.

— The Awesome Quoter Truth Only

Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.

— Timothy Leary

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.

— Camille Paglia

I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

— Yao Ming

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.

— Nicholas Negroponte

Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.

— B. F. Skinner

I told everyone that actings for losers and I needed to get an education. But something kept telling me to give it…

— Judi Shekoni

When I was in college I was offered Kannada film 'Suryakaanti' and I took it up. That's when I realised that I…

— Regina Cassandra

Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of…

— Dan Fogelberg

You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak- that I think about it all day long- that I like…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Im graduating high school next year and I'm going to be heading off to college if Romney wins what is my middle-class…

— Anonymous

I don't like to have the federal government start pushing its weight deeper and deeper into our schools. Let the states and…

— Mitt Romney

“She was going to seduce him. Or rather, have him seduce her. She wasn’t at all sure how to go about it,…

— Megan Bryce

Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from…

— Horace

“Please what? the teacher thinks. Please break the law? Please put myself and the school at risk? But, no, that's not it…

— Neal Shusterman

“Second, the teacher should be given extensive liberty in the selection of the material to be taught and the methods of teaching…

— Albert Einstein

The best attitude to receive the Pope's teachings is to understand that he is a religious leader and the essence of his…

— Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had…

— Malcolm X

We know everything about what you know and how you learn best because we get so much data. And education is the…

— Jose Ferreira

If we can take action to ensure Pennsylvanians receive a great education, from Pre-K through an apprenticeship program all the way to…

— Josh Shapiro

On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a…

— James Callis

I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I…

— Naveen Jain

I prepare a lot. For 'The Artist Is Present,' it took me a year to teach my body not to produce acids.

— Marina Abramovic

What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn?

— Ivan Illich

For the weak who seek power it'll bring, infallible the power, knowledge is king.

— Kool Moe Dee

Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.

— Julie Walters

The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.

— John Katzenbach

As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work.

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

— Sargent Shriver

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.

— Charles Caleb Colton

I never played a round when I didn't learn something new about the game.

— Ben Hogan

Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere.

— Shunryu Suzuki

I'd like to see college debt levels drop by a lot, but I'm not quite sure what the best way to do…

— Kevin Drum

“If the devil funded a study reporting that 91 percent of hell’s inhabitants were happy, would you believe it?”

— M.J. DeMarco

“Graduate school introduces student to extensive knowledge search.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Much to be preferred to boxing are fencing and revolver-practice, judo and study of poisons.”

— Robert Aickman

“Work, work, and work to obtain education. Later, your education will work for you”

— Dr Dorah Diale

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

— P. J. O'Rourke