Education Quotes - Page 37

• For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

  Plato

  Constitution, Nurture, Implants

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.11, University Press of America

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• Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

  Publilius Syrus

  Happiness, Failure, Learning

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 120, 1856.

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• The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Increase, Should

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4081, Library of Alexandria

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• As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  School, Men, Long

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2838, Library of Alexandria

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• Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.

  Richard Allington

  Children, Book, Literacy

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• There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.

  J. William Fulbright

  Country, Strong, Military

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• As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Believe, Teaching, Intellectual

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• A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Teacher, Retirement, School

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

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• Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Inspirational, Teacher, Retirement

  Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

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• The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

  Joyce Cary

  Inspirational, Teacher, Teaching

  Joyce Cary (1961). “Art and reality: ways of the creative process”

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• In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Knowledge, Order, Greed

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• Financial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it's not just the rich kids that learn about money.. it's all of us.

  David Bach

  Success, Money, Business

  FaceBook post by David Bach from Dec 10, 2010

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• The individual who cultivates grievances, and who is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to the education of time and of development.... One does not argue or contend with the foul miasma that settles over stagnant water; one leaves it and climbs to a higher region, where the air is pure and the sunshine fair.

  Lilian Whiting

  Time, Sunshine, Air

  Lilian Whiting (1896). “The World Beautiful”

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• A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  School, Writing, Aggravation

  Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.25, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Beautiful, Children, Thinking

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.49

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• Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

  Martin Luther

  Long, People, Listening

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• Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Fate, People, Playing It Safe

  "Are you playing it Safe? What does safety really mean to you?" by Ayelet Baron, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2017.

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• What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a path in the wilderness of his own soul, a disheartening process, lifelong and lonesome and therefore, of what use graduate work?

  Brad Gooch

  Teaching, Cutting, College

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• I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

  Bill Gates

  Life, Inspiring, Children

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• We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

  Jerome Bruner

  Children, Science, Development

  Jerome S. BRUNER (2009). “The Process of Education, Revised Edition”, p.33, Harvard University Press

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• It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft.

  Jacob Bernoulli

  Math, Thinking, Statistics

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• For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the consequences of cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task of building up an ethical system in which justice for animals is regarded as the norm rather than the exception. Our only hope is to put our focus on the education of the young.

  John Hoyt

  Animal, Building Up, Long

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• I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Mean, Giving, Perspective

  Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

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• In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn about the world around them, develop a sense of civic and social responsibility, and discover how they can contribute to the common good?

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Responsibility, World, Too Much

  Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

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• Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Commitment, Intellectual, Research

  Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

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