Education Quotes · Page 630

We need to bring learning to people instead of people to learning

— Elliott Masie

“No, there is nothing people will not do, and the sooner you learn that, the better off you will be.”

— Paul Auster

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

— Simone Weil

We are constantly reviewing our processes to identify areas where we can learn and improve.

— Tricia Griffith

I've learnt to settle down off the field. On it, I've learnt to concentrate more and keep working.

— Andy Carroll

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

— Ray Bradbury

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

— Edward Gibbon

However you learn and whatever your circumstances, an education that prepares you for the world is every child's right.

— Kandyse McClure

I look forward to talking about how we can work together to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for all students while also…

— Betsy DeVos

As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit…

— Hank Johnson

Don't run from lessons; they are little packages of treasure that have been given to us. As we learn from them, our…

— Louise Hay

When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical…

— Marva Collins

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Education is a…

— Laurence J. Peter

[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the…

— William Feather

The only realistic offer came from Nebraska University who offered me a scholarship to be a physical education director. What will a…

— P. T. Usha

I spent my college years studying what I enjoyed semester to semester-a little Spanish literature here, a little psychology there, a little…

— Jedediah Bila

In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in…

— Steven Pinker

“Teaching at any level on any subject is the most rewarding thing you can do,” Inman told Thompson. “I just love to…

— Adam M. Grant

When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat…

— John Green

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in…

— Plato

“Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. Aristotle speaks plainly to this purpose, saying, 'that the institution of…

— John Adams

It needs more than ever to be stressed that the best and truest educators are parents under God. The greatest school is…

— R.J. Rushdoony

I'm always composing and trying to learn more about the business. In today's market, it's more important than ever to be self-sufficient…

— Antoniette Costa

“And this means that, instead of always waiting for their needs to be satisfied by some external source, human beings can work…

— Wayne W. Dyer

“When you’re in the role of the teacher, the teacher must take on the role of the student and learn from him…

— Art Hochberg

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

— Anonymous

“Well, if they would not go to school they must still have their education. And education they had had.”

— Anthony Burgess

“It is time that we squarely face the fact that institutional schoolteaching is destructive to children.”

— John Taylor Gatto

It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.

— Brian Greene

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

— Anthony Weiner

“Dwelling much on the contemplation of little things, [we] are in danger of losing the intellectual appetite.”

— L.H. Sigourney

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

— Aristotle

“You will need at least two to four hours of study time every day in addition to your clinical and class time.…

— Caroline Porter Thomas

If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.

— Nanao Sakaki

So... I was reading this Fascinating study. It shows that Men think about sex every tits seconds.

— Green Monk

Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.

— William C. Bryant

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on

— Samuel Butler

“The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.”

— Idries Shah

When I was little, I always got so excited about learning - until I got to the actual learning part of learning.

— Sarah Cooper

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

— Epictetus