Education Quotes - Page 27

But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our culture is intense. For instance, decade after decade bright young men and women emerge from their universities able to say proudly: 'Of course I know nothing about German literature.' It is the mode. The Victorians knew everything about German literature, but were able with a clear conscience not to know much about the French.

To failure at something is an attempt to succeed. Be strong and try again.

Young children especially need the visual reinforcement of seeing you turn to Scripture for wisdom.

Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.

When you are in love, reality becomes illusion and illusion become reality.

Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.

When we will learn to emulate the peacefulness of a tree, love of a flower, the earth will be a garden of love and peace.

There is no right or wrong.There is no weak or strong.There is only you.There is no poetry or song. There is no short or long.There is only you.There is no beast or beauty.There is no task or duty.There is only you.There is no passion or mission. There is no wisdom or vision.There is only you.Nothing is there when you're not here.So love yourself and take great care.

Educators not only teach, but they also inspire students to learn, ignite the light of imaginations, shine the sense of perception, and define the path of life for future generations.

Accepting and appreciating heart brings abundance in life but gratitude acknowledge and dance with joy of receiving.

Life itself is the most precious gift to me, for that I am perpetually indebted.

As concerning the things whereof thou asked me, I will tell thee; for the evil is sown, but the destruction thereof is not yet come.

A problem is an opportunity to find a new way.

Belief is a shelter, a prison for a curious mind.

The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.

LIFE - Death's Very Emissary

Every beginner possesses a great potential to be an expert in his or her chosen field.

For a happy life, be kind and loving and be the source of happiness for others.

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

When you love someone who hates you, that is the practice of divine love.

Engagement provides opportunities to demonstrate how confrontation can be done both effectively and civilly

The moment men begin to care more for education than for religion they begin to care more for ambition than for education. It is no longer a world in which the souls of all are equal before heaven, but a world in which the mind of each is bent on achieving unequal advantage over the other. There begins to be a mere vanity in being educated whether it be self-educated or merely state-educated. Education ought to be a searchlight given to a man to explore everything, but very specially the things most distant from himself. Education tends to be a spotlight; which is centered entirely on himself. Some improvement may be made by turning equally vivid and perhaps vulgar spotlights upon a large number of other people as well. But the only final cure is to turn off the limelight and let him realize the stars.

With self-discipline, self-determination and self-endurance you can achieve the goal.

Let there be love. There will be light to show you the path of life.

Study to learn, do not study to pass".

[R]aising children ... was about identifying and amplifying their strengths and virtues, and helping them find the niche where they can live these positive traits to the fullest.

Consciousness and awareness are the sources of all possibilities and infinite creativity.

Soon learnt soon forgotten.

Live a life like a beautiful song, touch every heart with loving words and memorable music.

Let us be awake and live every moment of our precious, loving, and spontaneous life.

If you educate a man you educate a person but if you educate a woman you educate a family.

The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.

You're my story,you're my poetry,you're my floweryou're my deep driving desire.

If you can feed in the presence of your enemies, if you can be blessed under the weight of burdens, when you praise God in pain, it is preparation for provision.

Grade is only a number. We are greater than numbers.

In academics, an excellent result without personal effort is a copied work

Life can be full of despair without intimacy from a youth's family members and they need to understand that values of caring can help an individual to overcome his or her struggle as he or she develops to become an adult.

Be a thinker, be a dreamer, be a believer, be a doer, and, above all, be a kind lover.

There is no easy pathway to success. There are many rugged roads to straighten and walls to scale for the ultimate victory.

Something good about love: if you fall in it, you will not feel any pain.

Love and attraction is the magmatic language of the heart.

I'm not trying to tell you," he said "that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so.But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and creative to begin with--which, unfortunately, is rarely the case--tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are MEREly brilliant and creative.

When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.

Love that is within you is also flowing through the hearts of your neighbors and friends.

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.

Greatness demands great courage.

Never lose a chance to love someone and express kindness to someone.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow one's children to play in an environment where they listen to people rather than to stars, speakers, or instructors. All over the world, one can see the rapid encroachment of the disciplined acquiescence that characterizes the audience, the client, the customer.

In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Be anxious for no thing, be concerned about the state of your soul and that of your children, be concerned about God's work in the world; these are genuine concern but when it comes to the things in your life.....be not anxious. If God is for us who can be against us?

Even though I left school at age fifteen, I loved learning and continued to learn through my careers as a photojournalist, filmmaker, and explorer. I was taught that education is the great equalizer and knowledge is power. I prefer to think that knowledge is understanding; the more one knows, the less one fears.

If you can't see the assets in you, it will be hard for you to export it to the world. Recognise who you are and the world will recognise you.

An educator...a good one that is, inspires others to be even better than herself.

True education makes you beautiful like a butterfly, but it demands a transformation.

Education is free. Though the education I refer to is not confined to a stuffy old building that still manages to retain its charm – don’t get me wrong, I love my school – but it’s out there in the real world. Waiting to be experienced. Waiting for the curious young minds of tomorrow to free themselves from the shackles of ignorance and transcend above everyday like-minded thoughts and uncover the mysteries of tomorrow.

Confidence is good, but confidence with humility is far better.

When you see everything with love,everything looks at you with love.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.