Educational Quotes - Page 30

• No man is hurt but by himself.

  Diogenes

  Hurt, Men, Conflict

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• Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

  George MacDonald

  Life, Moving On, Strong

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• When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.

  Henry Fielding

  Enough

  'Tom Thumb the Great' (1731) act 1, sc. 3

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• To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inheritance, Born, Stills

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• Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.

  Rudolf Dreikurs

  Education, Dream, Reality

  Rudolf Dreikurs (2013). “The Challenge of Marriage”, p.94, Taylor & Francis

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• Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.

  Ken Robinson

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

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• Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working.

  Ken Robinson

  Teacher, School, Government

  "How to escape education's death valley". TED Talk, www.ted.com. April, 2013.

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• Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching the same way then that we're doing right now?

  Geoffrey Canada

  Teaching, Phones, Way

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• Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better.

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Bridges, Get Better

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• There are four headwinds that are just hitting the American economy in the face: They're demographics, education, debt and inequality. They're powerful enough to cut growth in half.

  Robert J. Gordon

  Powerful, Cutting, Growth

  "The Death of Innovation, the End of Growth". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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• Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Engineering, Talking, People

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• Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old dull scoundrel in my life ... But the old-fellows say we must read to gain knowledge; and gain knowledge to make us happy and be admired. Mere jargon! Is there any such thing as happiness in this world? No.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Tired, Wish, Devil

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• Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, Mind, May

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• life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mind, Spirit, Life Is

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786”, p.249, Cosimo, Inc.

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• what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Philosophy, Italian, Ethics

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• preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Ignorance, Law

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.8

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• besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Comfort

  Thomas Jefferson (1964). “Crusade Against Ignorance”

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• ours are the only farmers who can read Homer

  Thomas Jefferson

  Farmers

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.83

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• music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, Exercise, Drawing

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787”, p.266, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Men, Age

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• the study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his neighbors, & to the public.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Views, Law

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.261, Cambridge University Press

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• I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ideas, Mind, Branding

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.194, Hackett Publishing

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• the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind

  Thomas Jefferson

  Knowledge, Fields, Common

  Thomas Jefferson (1898). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1807-1815”

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• we defer therefore till this time twelve month to avail ourselves of the instruction of that place, and particularly of your kindness in the two branches of Botany and Natural history to which we wish him particularly to apply.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kindness, Two, Wish

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• letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Letters, Lasts, Firsts

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.303

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