Education Quotes - Page 10

• The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

  Will Durant

  Change, Graduation, Teacher

  "Books: The Great Gadfly". "TIME" Magazine, October 8, 1965.

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• Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

  Laurence J. Peter

  School, Prejudice, Method

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• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  Gail Godwin

  Inspirational, Thank You, Teacher

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• Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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• No one can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Teacher, Knowledge, Learning

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• I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

  Carl Sagan

  School, Learning, College

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.46, Ballantine Books

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• One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Priests, Good School, Thousand

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1883). “Popular edition of col. Ingersoll's lectures. (Freethought publ. co.'s ed.).”

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• I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, People, Library

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mignon McCarthy (1990). “Kareem”, Random House Incorporated

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• Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

  Neil Postman

  Children, Reading, Writing

  Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.70, Vintage

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• Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

  Alvin Toffler

  Learning, Chinese, Students

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• A community of people, that's the really what art school is.

  Ross Bleckner

  Art, School, People

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• Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

  Eric Fischl

  Artist, Generations, Given

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• A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

  Oscar Wilde

  Rogues, Process

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• Learn to think continentally.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Thinking, Political, Politics

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• Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make some kind of jump or leap, where , the painting is always saying, 'What do you want from me? I can only be a painting.' You have to go from part to part, but you shouldn't see yourself go from part to part, that's the whole point.

  Philip Guston

  Ideas, Trying, Want

  "Transcript of a public forum at Boston university', conducted by Joseph Ablow 1966". "Abstract Expressionism Creators and Critics" by Clifford Ross, pp. 68/69, 1990.

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• Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.

  Adam Gopnik

  Art, Degrees, Graduates

  "Life Studies" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 2011.

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• Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art.

  Michael Kimmelman

  Art, Ordinary, Lessons

  Michael Kimmelman (2005). “The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa”, Penguin Press HC

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• The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.

  Jonathan Alter

  Teaching, Keys, Fixing

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• When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.

  Patricia Schroeder

  College, College Education, American Family

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• The purpose of Art Education is to teach you how to draw.

  Igor Babailov

  Art, Purpose, Teach

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• I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

  Larry Hagman

  Book, Writing, Sells

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• A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.

  Robert Genn

  Book, Artist, Years

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• We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added new conquests to our domain in that incessant contest with nature which means life. But we are decadent heirs if we cannot use the instruments that the ages have put into our hands. The acquisition of these, in the largest scope, is education.

  Arthur Lynch

  Mean, Hands, Age

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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• We are now embarked on another venture to put the American dream to work in meeting the new demands of a new day. Once again we must start where men would improve their society have always known they must begin - with an educational system restudied, reinforced, and revitalized.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Dream, Money, Men

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.33, Best Books on

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