Education Quotes - Page 16

• You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

  Tammy Faye Bakker

  Fear, Atheism, Rage

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• When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had, but the opposite has been true for me. I'm much less likely to feel that gnawing fear of aimlessness and nihilism than I used to be and that's partly because education gave me job opportunities, but it's mostly because education gave me perspective and context.

  John Green

  Jobs, Party, College

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• In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.

  Peter Drucker

  School, World, Wonderful

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• Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.

  Madame de Stael

  Spring, Research, Different

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• What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
  [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Republic, Youth, Teach

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• Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  School, Night, Hours

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)”, p.210

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• Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

  James A. Baldwin

  School, White, Black

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• Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and incoherent classroom experience. Academic excellence, educational equity, and fairness demand a strong foundation of knowledge for all learners.

  E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

  Inspirational, Strong, Learning

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• The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

  Michael Jackson

  Inspiration, Learning, School

  Michael Jackson (2010). “Moonwalk”, p.36, Random House

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• If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

  Robert F. Goheen

  Graduation, Learning, College

  1961 Baccalaureate address. Reported in Time magazine, 23 Jun.

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• To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

  George Washington

  Country, Art, Reading

  Joseph Manca, George Washington (2012). “George Washington's Eye: Landscape, Architecture, and Design at Mount Vernon”, p.176, JHU Press

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• Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

  Henry Fielding

  Learning, School, Vices

  'Joseph Andrews' (1742) bk. 3, ch. 5

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• It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  America, Three, Six

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• I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

  Thomas A. Edison

  School, Class, Feet

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• the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

  Andy Rooney

  Elderly, Feet, World

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• Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.

  Al MacInnis

  Self Confidence, Independence, Steps

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• I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorance, Squares, Class

  1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1.

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• Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

  Lewis Carroll

  Ambition, Turtles, Different

  Lewis Carroll (1992). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions

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• You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.

  J. D. Salinger

  Teacher, Thinking, Hard

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.

  Mirabeau B. Lamar

  Money, Men, Mind

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• A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  College, Degrees, Doe

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Hard Work, Thinking

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

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• No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Faith, God, Christian

  "We Believe: Doctrines and Principles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints". Book by Rulon T. Burton, p. 10, 1994.

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• I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

  John Adams

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Letter to Abigail Adams, www.masshist.org. December 28, 1794.

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• We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

  Walter Scott

  Life, Positive, Real

  To J. G. Lockhart, August 1825, quoted in Lockhart 's 'Life of Sir Walter Scott' vol. 6 (1837) ch. 2

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