Education Quotes - Page 46

A child whose life is full of the threat and fear of punishment is locked into babyhood. There is no way for him to grow up, to learn to take responsibility for his life and acts. Most important of all, we should not assume that having to yield to the threat of our superior force is good for the child's character. It is never good for anyone's character.

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

I was only twelve. But I knew how much I loved her. It was that love that comes before all significance of body and morals. It was that love that was no more bad than wind and sea and sand lying side by side forever. It was made of all the warm long days together at the beach, and the humming quiet days of droning education at the school. All the long Autumn days of the years past when I carried her books home from school.

the difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation - men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

Education consensus is through exchange of ideas" Mohamed Osman Abbasheikh

Hope is the whisper of our heart about the possibilities of our lives.

There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises

Aiming to check a new test's difficulty, ask your assistants to solve the test prior to the actual exam. If the results are not satisfactory, reevaluate all ambiguous questions and correct them.

A great leader never fears criticism and welcomes them with openness and love as if they are the beauty of the journey.

In the Middle Ages, as in antiquity, they read usually, not as today, principally with the eyes, but with the lips, pronouncing what they saw, and with the ears, listening to the words pronounced. hearing what is called the "voices of the pages." It is a real acoustical reading.

Those who looked with revulsion at the oppressive might of her arms, were obliged to marvel at the egalitarian nature of her social programmes.

I dance with hopes and sing along with possibilities.

Every moment is important, like the moment that takes away your life.

Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago" [Without learning, life is but the image of death]

A wiz does not only rely on his or her peers for assistance., however he or she will unleash his or her exceptional accomplishments by working wisely and independently.

Experience is the opposite of education.

Mistakes are experiences. Without these experiences, there is no learning.

Let us reason according to the Scriptures.

Where you are no is the reflection of your lifelong thoughts and actions.

God's voice will be heard in the cave but only His visions will be revealed to you on the mountain. (A bit deep). God will always love you and will always speak to you but when you lose your perspective, you won't see his plan.

It is great to read. You will discover wisdom.

I attended the University of Earth, and earned my P.H.D in life from the school of hardship.

Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student.

You are the vessels of endless love. Your little, soft and melting heart is always carrying it for you and all, endlessly.

As a sculptor sculpts a statue, an educator educates our future generation. Beauty depends on the creator.

More often than not, how you give is more important than what you give.

Every challenge you encounter is part of the life’s journey. The challenges must be overcome for the vision to be fulfilled.

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

The real certificate is to know Jesus Christ.

When you are in peace with you, you will find the peace everywhere you go.

I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education, to enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom. 2. To divide every county into hundreds, of such size that all the children of each will be within reach of a central school in it

To be happy, pursue your purpose with love and honesty.

Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.

Renew your mind more often by reading variety of books

This larger goal wouldn’t be the imitation of education in Universities today, glossed over and concealed by grades and degrees that give the appearance of something happening when, in fact, almost nothing is going on. It would be the real thing.

All the good things on this earth are trophy cups. The strong win them. The weak lose them.from a speech by the Nazi Minister of Education

There is no better adviser than a good book.

Always follow your dreams with confidence and conviction, don’t fall for the trap of dream killers

Derisively, Ronan said, 'No. The ancient Greeks didn't have a word for Blue.'Everyone at the table looked at him.'What the hell, Ronan?' said Adam.'It's hard to imagine," Gansey mused, 'how this evidently successful classical education never seems to make it into your school papers.''They never ask the right questions,' Ronan replied.

I am pain stricken to say that, various “educational” institutions have adopted the medieval doctrine "fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom" as their motto. Let me tell you this, fear of the Lord, Santa Claus, Krishna, Thor, Hulk or any other imaginary being brings merely the illusion of wisdom, not wisdom. And illusion of wisdom is a billion times more harmful than lack of wisdom.

The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin first of all.

Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.

The greatest ideas are best conceive when we take time to relax.

Raise your children with right values and education. You may end up living frugal but you will die rich else you will live rich but die poor.

The pleasure of reading is indescribable.

Love is ageless, boundless, bodiless, boundary-less.

Adversity is a better educator than the best teacher.

He [F. Scott Fitzgerald] had learned to theorize, to think, although he was always less interested in the dissection of his reading than in the enjoyment he received. (About F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Every flower is telling you the secrets of life; to understand, you have to listen to them with your heart.

Use your time and your strength for your accomplishments.

Were we to confront our creaturehood squarely, how would we propose to educate? The answer, I think is implied in the root of the word education, educe, which means "to draw out." What needs to be drawn out is our affinity for life. That affinity needs opportunities to grow and flourish, it needs to be validated, it needs to be instructed and disciplined, and it needs to be harnessed to the goal of building humane and sustainable societies. Education that builds on our affinity for life would lead to a kind of awakening of possibilities and potentials that lie dormant and unused in the industrial-utilitarian mind. Therefore the task of education, as Dave Forman stated, is to help us 'open our souls to love this glorious, luxuriant, animated, planet.' The good news is that our own nature will help us in the process if we let it.

When you can love your enemy unconditionally, that is the practice of divine love.

If you feel rejected by others, do not deprive yourself. There will always be someone who will accept of who you are and your hopes would be fulfilled if you are persistent with yourself.

Too often we give up due to temporal challenge.

I would much rather be considered wise than smart. But, I still think it is wise to get an education.

Liberate yourself from any mental captivity.

War never can bring peace; only understanding, love, kindness and compassion can do that.

The issue, then, is not, What is the best way to teach? but, What is mathematics really all about?... Controversies about…teaching cannot be resolved without confronting problems about the nature of mathematics.

The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any great things are accomplished, he wrote to a correspondent, a memorable change must be made in the system of education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher. The education of a nation instead of being confined to a few schools and universities for the instruction of the few, must become the national care and expense for the formation of the many.

The desire to win a war is expensive, but the desire to win with wisdom is wise.