Education Quote by James K. A. Smith Download Open image “What if education wasn't first and foremost about what we know, but about what we love?” — James K. A. Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Firsts Ifs Inspirational Knows Love What if
Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Whatever the intellectual quality of the education given our children, it is vital that it include elements of love and compassion, for nothing guarantees… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There are so many things that we could do but education would be our primary need in this regard. And in obtaining this education… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Education broadens our horizons and enables us to confront realities we'd never before anticipated. — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect? — James K. A. Smith Copy Share Image
Let us think education as the means of developing our greatest abilities,because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In short, liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love. — James K. A. Smith Copy Share Image
What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect? — James K. A. Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes to be creative you have to give yourself permission to not be outstanding. — James K. A. Smith Copy Share Image
“What is education for ? And more specifically, what is at stake in a distinctly Christian education? What does the qualifier Christian mean when… — James K. A. Smith 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
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
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 not obtain in it a looking-glass; if he has not a skin of tin he will not be able to endure the toil of education; if he has not leaden posteriors he will not be able… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share
“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 solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take it . . . now that I can finally do it . . . I'm really… — Erica Jong Copy Share
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
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image