Education Quotes - Page 16

The best investment for poverty elimination is education.

Sadness is not out there. It's inside you. Sadness is often a misperception and false interpretation of a situation.

Freedom is will-power to define my path.

Health care and education are too important NOT to be left to the free market.

I find joy in reading.

It was much more than bricks and stone - It was an idea.

We have to be open to love to feel happiness and joy.

If you want to teach your children that they are the tools of God, you had better not teach them that they are God's rifles, or we will have to stand firmly opposed to you: your doctrine has no glory, no special rights, no intrinsic and inalienable merit. If you insist on teaching your children false-hoods—that the Earth is flat, that "Man" is not a product of evolution by natural selection—then you must expect, at the very least, that those of us who have freedom of speech will feel free to describe your teachings as the spreading of falsehoods, and will attempt to demonstrate this to your children at our earliest opportunity. Our future well-being—the well-being of all of us on the planet—depends on the education of our descendants.

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

…the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects, we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

Happiness is when you're content with what you have and appreciate what you get with gratitude.

Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator: single letters, and syllables uncomposed, are no better than nonsense. He who overlooketh him who is the 'Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending,' and seeth not him in all who is the All of all, doth see nothing at all. All creatures, as such, are broken syllables; they signify nothing as separated from God. Were they separated actually, they would cease to be, and the separation would be annhiliation; and when we separate them in our fancies, we make nothing of them to ourselves. It is one thing to know the creatures as Aristotle, and another thing to know them as a Christian. None but a Christian can read one line of his Physics so as to understand it rightly. It is a high and excellent study, and of greater use than many apprehend; but it is the smallest part of it that Aristotle can teach us.

He who only reads newspapers makes his mind a junkyard.

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

Life is a journey without destination but it unfolds our conscious and subconscious expectations.

When we will learn to see, not you and me, but only we, then there will be peace in this world.

Thine own things, and such as are grown up with thee, canst thou not know; How should thy vessel then be able to comprehend the way of the Highest, and, the world being now outwardly corrupted to understand the corruption that is evident in my sight?

Nothing but education defines the future of a person and the future of a nation.

Students would be assessed on effort rather than skill. You didn't have to be a natural athlete to do well in gym.

Education and knowledge are no longer values of truth and beauty that make life worth living- they are reduced to an economic means to the ends of greater pay and more consumption.

We came to this world with two wealths, love and hope, but, in the end, love is our only wealth.

Regarding school vs. homeschoolIf it works, send them there!If it doesn't, don't import it.

Think in a new way, think every day to find the truth.

Persistence creates genius; without persistence, there is no winner.

What is your hands to make a difference in the world?

I feel sorry for people who say they cannot read big books.

Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions.

Whatever you dream of is a possibility.

There is no friend like a book there is no beauty like a kind heart.

There is no greater fulfillment as the pursuit of dreams.

A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.

What women want as a class is irrelevant. I want to know about Aristotle. It is true that most women care nothing about him, and a great many male undergraduates turn pale and faint at the thought of him-but I, eccentric individual that I am, do want to know about Aristotle, and I submit that there is nothing in my shape or bodily functions which need prevent my knowing about him.

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

Love yourself first to love others.

A wise man is someone who knows how to convert obstacles into resources.

It is easy to love but difficult to forget, so love every moment to create an enormous unforgettable memory.

When question arise Be or not to beAlways be.

With great diligent, pursue your dreams.

Failure is not an option, winning or learning are the options.

Gratitude opens our mind to accept more and fills our heart to give more.

It’s a great honor, m’ijo. We know that. I’m sure everyone in Ysleta is proud of you. But this is who you are," she said, for a moment scanning the dark night air and the empty street. A cricket chirped in the darkness. "God help you when you go to this ‘Havid.’ You will be so far away from us, from everything you know. You will be alone. What if something happens to you? Who’s going to help you? But you always wanted to be alone; you were always so independent, so stubborn.""Like you.

As human beings, are we meant to develop as individuals serving only our own needs or also serving the needs of others? Do we aspire to develop as critically thinking, creative,innovative, humane people, or do we just want to think of ourselves as members of a specific nation and culture? Freedom allows choice and liberal education advocates for a specific choice: that the purpose of freedom is to enable creative, critically thinking,caring individuals to build healthy societies that serve universal (not just parochial) ends.

Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.

I love you because I find myself in you.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inkling of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living...In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution; but that fact should not blind us to another—namely, that in so doing we are learning a trade or a profession, but are not getting a liberal education as human beings.

Let me love and feel the joy of life.

Every intention emits a power of attraction, which brings all the forces of universe to fulfill your dreams.

In this world, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it.

Hope is the dance of the spirit. Mind is the stage and imagination is the music.

There is nothing more important and precious on earth than the opportunity to love and appreciate.

Wasting time is living in self glorification instead of glorifying God as God is time

To eradicate blindness, let us create opportunities for everyone to get an education.

Simplicity is the best strategy.Reciprocity is the best policy.

Education means breaking free from the manacles of limitations put forward by primitive ignorance.

If the most High grant thee to live, thou shall see after the third trumpet that the sun shall suddenly shine again in the night, and the moon thrice in the day:

You don't have to be perfect, just be loving and compassionate.

When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too.

I didn't come from a success lineage but I am so glad that my earthly lineage is not my final story because when I gave my life to Jesus twelve years back, God interrupted my story.

If you want to know the value of a year, ask the student who was in the final year of his university education, when the lecturers went on strike and the school ended up closing for a year.