Educational Quotes · Page 33

I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international…

— Howard Gardner

“There is only one way to make your dream a reality: make the decision and then not change it.”

— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

— Vita Sackville-West

We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It’s not about making learning happen; it’s about letting it…

— Sugata Mitra

this interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to…

— Thomas Jefferson

The educational system is pretty much geared to passing the next exam. You're educated to pass tests and not to understand.

— Noam Chomsky

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been…

— Terry Pratchett

You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or…

— Rupert Murdoch

Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Too many people view on [space exploration] as a luxury rather than as a fundamental driver to stimulate interest in science to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The value of making young people stupid, subject to an educational deficit has enormous currency in a society in which existing relations…

— Henry Giroux

As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out…

— Koichiro Matsuura

It can be said that there are four basic and primary things that the mass of people in a society wish for:…

— Nelson Mandela

There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to…

— Adam Braun

I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but treating them well and with…

— Frans de Waal

Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their…

— Diane Ravitch

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all…

— Thomas Jefferson

An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a…

— William James

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

— John W. Gardner

“THE MOST HURTFUL BELIEF: We live in a world where we are taught that we get by taking.”

— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D

Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable…

— Bahá'u'lláh

Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as…

— Joseph Barrell

We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education…

— Stephen Downes

We have very close humanitarian contacts [with China], wide-ranging youth exchanges, educational and regional contacts, and all of them continue to develop.

— Vladimir Putin

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

— Sargent Shriver

“The only way to heal is to help others heal, and the only way to find love and keep love in our…

— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do…

— Randy Pausch

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live…

— Danny Glover

Never do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you'll make him…

— Howard G. Hendricks

We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural…

— E. D. Hirsch, Jr

“Challenges lead to Growth, Grow matures ones daily living, Living a good life expedites…Wisdom”

— Vernetta Norman

In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.

— Harry Wong

Teaching has always been a poorly paid profession, particularly considering its educational requirements and responsibilities.

— Alissa Quart

In the world of Internet Customer Service, it's important to remember your competitor is only one mouse click away.

— Douglas A. Warner III

What sets apart high-performance teams, however, is the degree of commitment, particularly how deeply committed the members are to one another.

— Jon Katzenbach

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education…

— Aristotle

I have made education a top priority of this Administration because when we get it right, when every child learns, America will…

— George W. Bush

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.

— Dee Hock

There does seem to be a higher educational level in parents of autistic youngsters, and I guess that's something that we need…

— Darold Treffert

Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.

— Koichiro Matsuura