Education Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Distant Days Education Education Entirely Ill Luck Luck Distant Luck Usually Matter Matter Luck
Education was almost always a matter of luck usually ill luck in those distant days. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate. — Democritus Copy Share Image
It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas… — William James Copy Share Image
“The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Education is the great equalizer of our time. It gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without... — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Education was not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It was an initiation into the… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
“In school you are taught to obey and not to think straight for your own good. Otherwise the world would be full of millionaires… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image