Education Quotes - Page 21

Kelli Farrell talks about the difference between girls and boys who struggle to get through high school: "Girls, especially those whose moms are head of household, get the message that men come and go, that they're going to have to take care of themselves and their kids. They're ready for the opportunity to step up. By the last year or two in high school, many boys have already steeled themselves for failure. They've checked out intellectually, mentally, and emotionally.

It is far easier to move mountain than to move science by this one degree. We have the power to move mountain, if we have faith that the mountain can be moved. It is now that our faith is tested. The future of humankind hangs in the balance.

If we all want the peace and flooded the world with love, peace will wait for us at the shore.

Whatever you do, foolish or wise, important or unimportant, do with love and enthusiasm.

Never try to be the passenger of life. Be the driver and enjoy the ride.

A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.

Let us think, let us loveJust for a day, just for a nightLet us find peace and happinessDeep in our heart with spiritual light.

You know you are capitalism’s ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom.

College is not important, Knowledge is

The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best

Focus on joy, not on hurt or fear.The earth will dance, peace to share.

The World Bank, anxious that the last vestiges of Zimbabwe's former inclination toward socialism be abandoned, successfully urged the imposition of a token tuition charge for all grade levels. Equivalent to one U. S. dollar per year per child, this fee constitutes a burden to the poorest families, who have responded by sending only boys to classes. Too many of the girls . . . have resorted to prostitution in order to eat.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it

Whatever you want, work for it.

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

If you feed a child, you strengthen him for a day; if you educate him, you strengthen him for a lifetime.

Cuddle with your children. Don't just read – talk about the pictures too. Give emphasis to your words and make them come alive!Make it fun and enjoyable.

Our life is a journey toward happiness.

Hope is a flower bud in the garden of the mind, waiting to bloom in the morning sun.

Wisdom is the byproduct of lifelong experience and education.

When you plan something that is unpragmatic, it proves that you do not have a lot of knowledge about your topic that you are mentioning to others.

To change the world, change yourself first.

For success, be focused, be goal oriented, and be persistent.

I am a little childI am the symbols of peaceI am the symbols of loveI am your future, just for youI will be hear for everI am your loveI am your hopeI am really the reflection of youSo just for me Save the peace, keep alive the hopeLight the lamp, whatever you do.

Shockingly, too many of our children don't read to grade level. Studies show that if a child does not read to grade level by third grade, that child is likely to drop out of school. I believe the love of reading begins at home. We should do all we can to make sure that our children and grandchildren stay in school and graduate. Reading to grade level is an important foundation.

The harder you search the more troubled you become.

I dream of a land of peace where everyone can live in harmony.I dream of a land of joywhere everyone can live without agonyI dream of a land of fairy where everyone can live with beauty.I dream of a land of forgiveness where everyone can live with unity. I dream of a land of tranquilitywhere everyone can live with diversity. I dream of a land of lovewhere we can live in peace as a beloved humanity.

You are educated. Yourcertification is in yourdegree. You may think ofit as the ticket to the goodlife. Let me ask you to think of analternative. Think of it as yourticket to change the world.

The holy knowledge is the fear of God.

Hope is like a beautiful flower. If we take great care of our hope, life could be a beautiful garden.

The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent.

Knowledge is borrowed wisdom is unique.

The only power that I want to use is the power of love.

When you search for happiness, it flies away.When you serve others, you will find the way.When you share blessings and express kindness,You will find the source of enduring happiness.

A purposeful life is a happy life.

Strive for perfection, knowing it will never be achieved.

To find a focus, learn to love and dream.

The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote)

Tomorrow belongs to those who learn today.

Happiness is a state of awareness, which comes from tranquility, service, love, grace, and forgiveness.

Let us all practice the power of love to win the peace.

Love yourself first to be loving and beloved.

We listened, as all boys in their better moods will listen (ay, and men too for the matter of that), to a man whom we felt to be, with all his heart and soul and strength, striving against whatever was mean and unmanly and unrighteous in our little world. It was not the cold, clear voice of one giving advice and warning from serene heights to those who were struggling and sinning below, but the warm, living voice of one who was fighting for us and by our sides, and calling on us to help him and ourselves and one another.

There is only One holy Knowledge, the excellent knowledge of God.

Our ferocious commitment to our children's safety and success, along with our genuine love, drives us to endure the often unhappy experience of disciplining our children.

Thy heart had gone too far in this world, and think thou to comprehend the way of the most High?

Love costs nothing except your state of being.

Entrepreneurs, let’s begin to turn our desire and design into reward.

A man without regrets cannot be cured.

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

We can only reach the highest height, if we encourage each other.

Constructively challenging authority requires the basic habits of mind a liberal education seeks to instill: the ability to frame the essential questions; to think critically, analytically, and ethically about the problems those questions identify; and to respond effectively, creatively, and wisely to the implications of the analysis. It requires not only an ability to appreciate the complexity of a problem but also to identify its essence in order to achieve effective, just, and fair conclusions.

Life is science.

Why has pachinko swept Japan? It can hardly be the excitement of gambling, since the risks and rewards are so small. During the hours spent in front of a pachinko machine, there is an almost total lack of stimulation other than the occasional rush of ball bearings. There is no thought, no movement; you have no control over the flow of balls, apart from holding a little lever which shoots them up to the top of the machine; you sit there enveloped in a cloud of heavy cigarette smoke, semi-dazed by the racket of millions of ball bearings falling through machines around you. Pachinko verges on sensory deprivation. It is the ultimate mental numbing, the final victory of the educational system." - Lost Japan, Eng. vers., 1996

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

When someone uses the power of their love, they feel strong, courageous, and enthusiastic.

I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

Challenges are part of life. Overcoming them makes you a stronger person.

When you change your thinking, you change the world.

How could you renew your mind, if you never read?