Education Quotes - Page 11

• A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

  James A. Baldwin

  Teacher, Children, Powerful

  "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?" by James A. Baldwin, archive.nytimes.com. July 29, 1979.

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• Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Years, Study, Sensitive

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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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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• 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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• Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves.

  Edward Hirsch

  School, People, Style

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• Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.

  Tom Stoppard

  Favour, University

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Invention of Love”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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• Nature is the best instructor.

  Paul Cezanne

  Instructors

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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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• A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

  Oscar Wilde

  Rogues, Process

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• Self-education only produces expressions of self.

  Robert Henri

  Self, Expression, Produce

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Learn to think continentally.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Thinking, Political, Politics

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• Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

  Karl Kraus

  Success, Wise, Stupid

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• Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Self, Two, Support

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

  Janet Jackson

  Wisdom, Eye, Hype

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.

  Kavita Ramdas

  Strong Women, Passion, Humble

  "'Having it all doesn't mean doing it all': Women's grad advice to women" by Eun Kyung Kim, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• the moment you stop learning, you stop leading.

  Rick Warren

  Leadership, Learning, Moments

  Rick Warren (2013). “Thinking. Loving. Doing.”, p.32, SPCK

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• Educate the heart. Let us have good men.

  Hiram Powers

  Heart, Men, Good Man

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• Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

  Ezra Pound

  Real, Learning, Independent

  ABC of Reading (1934) ch. 8

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• Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.

  B. F. Skinner

  Advantage, Ends, Ultimate

  B. F. Skinner (2016). “The Technology of Teaching”, p.144, B. F. Skinner Foundation

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• A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Children, Years, Political

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• Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

  Sidney Hook

  Teacher, Teaching, Heart

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• If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

  Abraham Maslow

  Wisdom, Humorous, Creativity

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• I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

  Winston Churchill

  Teaching, College, Age

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• You teach best what you most need to learn.

  Richard Bach

  Wisdom, Teaching, Learning

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.48, Delta

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