Educational Quotes

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Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame… — Robert M. Hutchins
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done,… — Aldous Huxley
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make… — Aldous Huxley
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. — Thomas Huxley
As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no… — Douglas Hyde
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. — Lee Iacocca
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. — Robert Green Ingersoll
I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message. — Steve Irwin
I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything. — Steve Irwin
Your children need your presence more than your presents. — Jesse Jackson
But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end… — Marc Jacobs
My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to… — Naveen Jain
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. — William James
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. — William James
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. — Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system… — Jim Jeffords
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. — Gertrude Jekyll
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together. — Douglas William Jerrold
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want… — Steve Jobs

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