Educational Quotes - Page 13

• The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

  Plato

  Love, Inspirational, Education

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• I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

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• The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.

  H. L. Mencken

  Simple, Ideas, Citizens

  H. L. Mencken (2000). “H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism”, p.222, Regnery Publishing

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• Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Success, Education

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.44, Princeton University Press

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• Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Growth, Literature

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.13, Kappa Delta Pi

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• It is only the ignorant who despise education.

  Publilius Syrus

  Education, Teacher, Money

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 571, 1856.

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• I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Light, Looks

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretarry of state”, p.263

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• the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Self, Long

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.341

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• The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repair man's kids through college.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Education, Teaching, Kids

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• we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure that sectarian schooling does not convert education into a prison, rather than being a passport to the wide world.

  Amartya Sen

  Education, Fighting, Goes On

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• The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake. They expand our freedom to lead the lives we have reason to value, and these elementary capabilities are of importance on their own

  Amartya Sen

  Education, Ignorance, Opportunity

  Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen, World Institute for Development Economics Research (1997). “Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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• What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

  Kathleen Turner

  Education, Children, Kids

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• Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions are starving. And yet, just a fraction of what is expended so obscenely on defense budgets would make the difference in enabling God's children to fill their stomachs, be educated, and given the chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives.

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, Real, Happy Life

  Desmond Tutu's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1984.

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• Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Awakening, Scholarship, Interest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches”

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• From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Teacher, Father, Home

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book I, Verse 4,

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• Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Inspirational, Education, Philosophy

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• Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Children, Philosophy

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.

  David Warlick

  Education, Teacher, Technology

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• The Schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

  Will Rogers

  School, Nostalgia, Used

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• Every artist was first an amateur.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.119, Harvard University Press

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• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his "mistakes." The more a child's work is full of these individual mistakes the more wonderful it is. And the more a teacher removes them from the child's work the duller, more desolate and impersonal it becomes.

  Franz Cizek

  Beautiful, Teacher, Children

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

  Douglas A. Warner III

  Inspirational, Loyal Customers, Important

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  Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

  Lauren Bacall

  Women, Inspiration, Memorable

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• I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Education, Grandchildren, Dice

  "Tallulah: My Autobiography". Book by Tallulah Bankhead, 1952.

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