Educational Quotes - Page 19

• It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual.

  Ian Mcewan

  People, Intellectual, Dresses

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• Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Men, Baha, Benefits

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• Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Graduation, Education

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• The most important thing about education is appetite.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspiring, Important, Appetite

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• If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Quoted in Decatur (Ill.) Daily Republican, 19 May 1882.

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• In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming almost generally true, it is spiritually unsafe to attend public schools. Look back over the history of education to the turn of the century and the beginning of the educational philosophies, pragmatism and humanism were the early ones, and they branched out into a number of other philosophies which have led us now into a circumstance where our schools are producing the problems that we face.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Philosophy, School, Numbers

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• While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.24

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• Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Wise, Stupid

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• Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Love, Life, Passion

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.

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• Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

  Frank Zappa

  Motivational, Senior, Learning

  "Song: "Hungry Freaks Daddy" ("Freak Out!")". June 27, 1966.

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• A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

  Shelby Foote

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

  North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 51-54, 1993.

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• A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Spiritual, Work

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• There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.

  John Dewey

  Facts, Reason Why, Abstract

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.46, Kappa Delta Pi

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• Whoever had decided that school should start so early in the morning and last all day long needed to be hunted down and forced to watch hours of educational televison without the aid of caffine.

  Heather Brewer

  Morning, School, Long

  Heather Brewer (2007). “The chronicles of Vladimir Tod: eighth grade bites”

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• Time heals all wounds.

  Stephen King

  Get Well, Healing, Time Heals

  Stephen King (2009). “Stephen King Goes to the Movies”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophy, Moon, Literature

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.4, Bantam

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• We must love one another or die

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Philosophy, Literature

  "September 1, 1939" l. 88 (1939). In a 1955 printing of the poem Auden changed this to "love one another and die."

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• There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Two, People, Criticism

  "Child Psychology and Nonsense" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, October 15, 1921.

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• Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

  Walter Cronkite

  Inspirational, Education, Ignorant

  "The price of libraries is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation" by Abigail Tarttelin, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2013.

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• You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television?

  James Patterson

  Children, Home, Cereal

  James Patterson (2008). “Maximum Ride: The Final Warning”, p.37, Random House

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• Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that is good remains wedded to the very logic of Western metaphysical dualism that is the heart of racist binary thinking. Such thinking is not liberatory. Like the racist educational ideology it mirrors and imitates, it invites a closing of the mind.

  Bell Hooks

  Heart, Thinking, Mirrors

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• The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

  Rebecca West

  Strength, Success, Encouraging

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• One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

  Paulo Freire

  Views, People, Political

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.68, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.

  Che Guevara

  Children, Wall, Privilege

  "'The University Should Color Itself Black, Mulatto, Worker and Peasant'". Speech to the University of Las Villas, www.themilitant.com. December 28, 1959.

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• ...the Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath. When I envision us walking seven abreast through the halls of Cutter High, decked out in the sacred blue and gold, my heart swells.

  Chris Crutcher

  Heart, Men, Blue

  Chris Crutcher (2002). “Whale Talk”, Laurel Leaf

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