Education Quotes - Page 25

The earth is my home, the journey is my destination.

A woman always wants to change her man but a man wants her to be unchanged.

College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t’ hold the stuff as is poured into ‘em.

Gratitude is a prayer of an appreciating heart for the great gift of life and its endless treasures.

The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.

Kindness is not an option, it is an absolute necessity of life.

I love you as river love the ocean.I love you as the rain love the earth.

Begin the journey. The whole world is waiting to help you.

We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable, achieve higher grades in school and college and have more success in their careers than others. Success depends on the ability to delay gratification, which is precisely what a consumerist culture undermines. At every stage, the emphasis is on the instant gratification of instinct. In the words of the pop group Queen, “I want it all and I want it now.” A whole culture is being infantilised.

lessons of medicrity, to a great extent, produce students of mediocrity

I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here.They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.

May you have strength to complete studies.

Strong people don't put others down. They lift them up and slam them on the ground for maximum damage.

What you see and what you listen to will determine how high you will go.

A nation that does not provide a proper education for women is destroying their nation.

The world of possibilities surround you, if thy will look.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Jefferson's fear was that without such a system of public education, the country would end up being ruled by a privileged elite that would recycle itself through a network of private institutions that entrenched their advantages.

Oh my love, pure and divine love,I want to drown in youand then get lost,to find myself again and again,as a symbol and source of love,pure, blissful and divine.

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. Knowledge is a viaticum. Though is a prime necessity; truth is nourishment, like wheat. A reasoning faculty, deprived of knowledge and wisdom, pines away. We should feel the same pity for minds that do not eat as for stomachs. If there be anything sadder than a body perishing for want of bread, it is a mind dying of hunger for lack of light. All progress tends toward the solution. Some day, people will be amazed. As the human race ascends, the deepest layers will naturally emerge from the zone of distress. The effacement of wretchedness will be effected by a simple elevation level.

The goal of all learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents.

Our experience of the governments of the world, our knowledge of the weapons at their disposal, and our awareness of our own limitations justify pessimism. But some mysterious factor deep in the human psyche has produced a countervailing conviction that educating, organizing, uniting, and acting will make a difference.

Education is the movement from darkness to light

Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment.

Happiness will be there if you want to be happy.

The world belongs to those who know how to love but not how to judge.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal that will make this world a better place for future generations.

Without love, life is so boring.

When we learn to enjoy success as well as failure, we will be eternally happy and joyful for sure.

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of any real civilization.

To care is our endless sense if duty.

College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line.

Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?

If someone thinks that they are invincible, they would start to become arrogant with others and greedy about power. Eventually, people who are more intelligent can defeat him or her and give them a taste about their weakness.

I am here just to express my love.I am here just to be kind.I am here just to enhance the beauty.I am here just to care for the humanity.

..English teachers often take a right-wrong stance. I'd rather my students take a thinking stance.

Every moment, with every heartbeat, we change, but still we fear the change.

Very often it has come to my mind what men of learning there were formerly throughout England..and how nowadays...we would have to seek them outside...Thanks be to God Almighty that we now have any supply of teachers at all!...As often as you can, free yourself from worldly affairs so that you may apply that wisdom which God gave you wherever you can. Remember what punishments befell us in this world when we ourselves didn't cherish learning nor transmit it to other men.

The first duty of a man is to love himself. When someone loves himself, he is loving the universe. This universe is existing because of you.

Believe in your dream and strength of your divine-self.

A life without books is empty.

I am loving and joyful because I think I am.

Life is joyful; life is wonderful.Life is love's shrine.When you're my moon, I am your star. Oh my eternal valentine.

Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

Wisdom is the essence of education. Kindness is the essence of morality.

Skill teachers are made scarce by the belief in the value oflicenses. Certification constitutes a form of market manipulation and is plausible only to a schooled mind.Most teachers of arts and trades are less skillful, less inventive, and less communicative than the best craftsmenand tradesmen. Most high-school teachers of Spanish or French do not speak the language as correctly as theirpupils might after half a year of competent drills. Experimentsconducted by Angel Quintero in Puerto Ricosuggest that many young teen-agers, if given the proper incentives, programs, and access to tools, are better thanmost schoolteachers at introducing their peers to the scientific exploration of plants, stars, and matter, and to thediscovery of how and why a motor or a radio functions.

Greatness always indicates simplicity. Wisdom always results from curiosity.

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.

Don't think because you can't affect something at a great level that God can't use you in a great way. David didn't even train one day with the armies but He won the war. He didn't even have a weapon but he killed a giant.

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

Hear about the hidden time. Some think the hidden time is yet to come. The Kingdom of God does not come by Observation. It is hidden in the inner dimension.

Character is the main object of education.

Enthusiasm is the key but action opens the door.

While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing. As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. It uses light, air, moisture, and the material of soil. To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. As long as it is growing, the energy it expends in thus turning the environment to account is more than compensated for by the return it gets: it grows.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

We came to the world with love and hopeWe are the creation of hope, faith and love.

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.

The true value in education is, I think, the way that it teaches us to investigate ourselves and our world. It often forces us to step outside of ourselves and our experiences, and that is an absolutely essential ability for a writer to have.