Educational Quotes - Page 9

• One customer well taken care of could be more valuable than $10,000 worth of advertising.

  Jim Rohn

  Business, Taken, Care

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 12, 2015

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• The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

  James Stockdale

  Education, Ideas, Curiosity

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• The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

  Samuel Johnson

  Graduation, Education, Teaching

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• The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, Sleep, Laziness

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Easyread Edition”, p.243, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.

  Winston Churchill

  Taught, Unschooling

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• The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach.

  Meladee McCarty

  Education, Kids, Wrestling

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• The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention

  Richard Moss

  Communication, Wrestling, Listening To Others

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• I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

  Haim Ginott

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Education, Teacher, Mistake

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• Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Education, Children, Rights

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• Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.

  Ronald Reagan

  Education, Mean, Exercise

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• If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

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• It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Education, Work, Humorous

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• Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Motivational, Wisdom, Perseverance

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Education, Different

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.152, Wordsworth Editions

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

  Brander Matthews

  Education, Latin, Humorous

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• If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

  Watts Humphrey

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "My Country", Volume 2, No. 3, published by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23, September 1968.

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• ...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Education, Philosophy

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Two, Listening

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

  Aristotle

  Fate, Empires, Youth

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• It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

  "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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• I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

  Wilson Mizner

  Faith, Education, Teacher

  Quoted in Edward Dean Sullivan, The Fabulous Wilson Mizner (1935)

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