Education Quotes - Page 15

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

I believe that what we get out of life is what we've set ourselves up to get, so there's no such thing as an inconsequential decision. Our destinies are the culmination of all the choices we've made along the way, which is why it's imperative to listen hard to your inner voice when it speaks up.
Don't let anyone else's noise drown it out.

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.

The only things you learn are the things you tame