Educational Quotes - Page 36

• When it comes to the education of our children... failure is not an option.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Failure Is Not An Option, Our Children

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• I have made education a top priority of this Administration because when we get it right, when every child learns, America will be a more hopeful place.

  George W. Bush

  Children, America, Hopeful

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• It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time.

  Margery Williams

  Life, Time, Real You

  Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Became Real”, p.13, Marshall Cavendish

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• The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wise, Wisdom, Wiser

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• One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Ideas, Shadow, Literature

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• The education of the will is the object of our existence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, School, Existence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2508, Delphi Classics

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• Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

  Barbara Jordan

  Education, Keys, Political

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• Students who laugh more- learn more. Students who laugh more earn more.

  John Cleese

  Laughing, Students

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• When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Education, Parenting, Causes

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2005). “Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning”, p.9, New World Library

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• If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Mistake, Mean

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• We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

  Sydney J. Harris

  Education, Responsibility, Parenting

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• The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.

  Carl Sagan

  Education, Lying, Mean

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• I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

  John Dewey

  Believe, Progress, Reform

  John Dewey (1972). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.93, SIU Press

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• You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Love, Education, Running

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• Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Leader, Firsts

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• Education is the process of selling someone on books.

  Douglas Wilson

  Education, Book, Selling

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• If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.

  William Bennett

  Education, Children, School

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• Knowledge is not information, it's transformation.

  Rajneesh

  Education, Information, Transformation

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• The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Education, Teaching, Sunset

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• We are the world, we are the children.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, World

  "We Are the World" (song) (1985).

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• Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Education, Teacher

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• I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

  Alice James

  Education, Stupid, Humorous

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• There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!

  Robert Browning

  God, Education, Men

  'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 10, l. 1975

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• IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Family, Education

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• CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY

  Michael K. Williams

  Opportunity, Childhood, Puddles

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