Educational Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

  John Dewey

  Ends, Process

  John Dewey (2009). “Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.89, The Floating Press

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• Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Inspirational, Learning, Quality

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.18, New Society Publishers

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• Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace

  Sophie Kinsella

  Book, Shopping, Sophie

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• Bee stings are very educational

  Garth Nix

  Bees

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• Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophy, Life Is Like, Literature

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.92, Bantam

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• I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Art, Writing, Garden

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (1925). “In the Garden ...”

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• Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

  Randy Pausch

  Kids, Parenting, Favors

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

  Jean Piaget

  Inspirational, Play, Answers

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• Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic" writing style combined with educational aims.

  Charles Portis

  Writing, Long, Interesting

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.52, A&C Black

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• The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class. That is why every newly minted constable, regardless of their educational background, has to spend a two-year probationary period as an ordinary plod on the streets. This is because nothing builds character like being abused, spat at and vomited by members of the public.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Character, Thinking, Years

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• (Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones that make tomorrow come. The foundations of economies... issue forth from investments we make in science and technology.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Technology, Issues, Space

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• What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Book, Healing, Blessing

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Solitary Summer”, p.16, Elizabeth von Arnim

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• Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

  Paula Fox

  Inspirational, Life, Imagination

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