Education Quotes - Page 33

• One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Giving, Adults

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• Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.

  Paul Chambers

  Strong, Real, Character

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• Science is the storytelling of our time.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Storytelling, Our Time

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• If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Women, Growing, Prosperity

  Democracy in America vol. 2, sec. 3, ch. 12 (1840) (translation by Henry Reeve)

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• The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  School, People, Purpose

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• Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

  Camille Paglia

  Past, Doors, Dizzy

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.8, Vintage

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• Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

  Jane Byrne

  Country, Museums, University

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• Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

  Orrin Hatch

  Graduation, Senior, College

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• Mentoring is all about people - it's about caring, about relationships and sensitivity. As it becomes increasingly in vogue it is becoming too formulated - concerned with performance metrics, critical success factors, investment and spending. It'll be a disaster.

  Rene Carayol

  Caring, People, Becoming

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• Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, New Experiences

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 14, 2015

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• It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if so many remain without the basic tools of literacy?

  Koichiro Matsuura

  Democracy, Adults, Tools

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• With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to sustain it. The payoff is delicious in terms of improved quality of life.

  Doc Childre

  Moving, Emotional, New Experiences

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• Fear is priceless education.

  Lance Armstrong

  Priceless

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• Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.

  John A. Hannah

  Inspirational, Men, Discovery

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

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• Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.

  Milton Berle

  Teacher, Teaching, Kids

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• I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.

  Anne Sexton

  Teaching, Kind, Affair

  "Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters".

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• A teacher should be sparing of his smile.

  William Cowper

  Teacher, Teaching, His Smile

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper, Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations”, p.147

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• Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Teacher, Teaching, Say Anything

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• Experience is a great teacher, and sometimes a pretty teacher is a great experience.

  Evan Esar

  Teacher, Teaching, Sometimes

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• Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  School, Age, Delinquency

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1979). “Things past”

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• We must do better or perish as the nation we know today.

  Lauro Cavazos

  Today, Knows, Nations

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• Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  School, Government, Nurse

  Speech in the House of Commons, June 15, 1874.

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• Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

  Doug Larson

  Dog, Home, School

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• Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

  Nora Ephron

  Graduation, Inspire, Dresses

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from May 24, 2016

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• I was raised in a small town. It was so small that our school taught driver's education and sex education in the same car.

  Mary Sue Terry

  Sex, Teaching, School

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