Education Quotes - Page 52

My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelli

Our young should be at ease with the fact that every mind works differently, and that there is never an issue if someone’s mind is not adapted to this or that subject, or even to this or that manner of teaching or learning.His mind, in whatever manner it needs to function, is a precious stone in humanity’s treasure, whether he realizes it or not.

Secret glances are shared by those on the "inside" or esoteric "inner circle", who have literally gone into many lower frequencies simultaneously. This is the "secret glance" of love, which allows the higher to operate in the lower; to "save" those worlds in order to correct the impending takeover of the "Devil and his demons", a metaphor for light and dark "battles" raging today.

We learn best when we care about what we are doing, when we have choices. We learn best when the work has meaning to us, when it matters. We learn best when we are using our hands and our minds.We learn best when the work we are doing is real and relevant.

Some people have a heart to do evil and they don’t care if you’re Muslim or Christian.

We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach it to them, but by making the world, as far as we can, accessible to them, paying serious attention to what they do, answering their questions -- if they have any -- and helping them explore the things they are most interested in.

The questions that we have to ask and to answer about that procession during this moment of transition are so important that they may well change the lives of men and women forever. For we have to ask ourselves, here and now, do we wish to join that procession, or don't we? On what terms shall we join that procession? Above all, where is it leading us, the procession of educated men?...Let us never cease from thinking--what is this "civilisation" in which we find ourselves? What are these ceremonies and why should we take part in them? What are these professions and why should we make money out of them? Where in short is it leading us, the procession of the sons of educated men?

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Plato and Aristotle are my teachers. Even Kant is my teacher, but my greatest teacher is my failures.

The chains had fallen from her leg, but not from her mind.

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

If it has to be done, take the responsibility to do it.

Manifest kindness to embrace greatness.

Education means Independence and Independence means liberty!

Art is an imagination, projection, and reflection of the mind in a particular form that society can internalize and enjoy.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

When you are beloved and express gratitude like the fragrance of a beautiful flower, you are happy.

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?

Let the blossoms of love beautify your heart.

I have this thought, it’s horrible, and it makes me sick, but it’s true: one day these students will grow up and have their own kids, and they’re going to name them for men and women who will die in this war.

The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. But I think that education, and only education, has saved, and can continue to save, American women from the greater dangers of the feminine mystique.

You have to go head, even if no one goes with you.

When question ariseBelieve or not to believeAlways believe.

Of course, even before Flaubert, people knew stupidity existed, but they understood it somewhat differently: it was considered a simple absence of knowledge, a defect correctable by education. In Flaubert's novels, stupidity is an inseparable dimension of human existence. It accompanies poor Emma throughout her days, to her bed of love and to her deathbed, over which two deadly agélastes, Homais and Bournisien, go on endlessly trading their inanities like a kind of funeral oration. But the most shocking, the most scandalous thing about Flaubert's vision of stupidity is this: Stupidity does not give way to science, technology, modernity, progress; on the contrary, it progresses right along with progress!

If you don't fear the failure, then failures are the best muscle builder.

The greatest strength is the spirit of endurance.

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

Never raise your voice but raise yourself and your passion for love and life.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

With large industries throwing out the factory model as counterproductive, it is long past time for schools to do the same. I wonder how many adults would do well at dealing with different job requirements and a different boss every 47 minutes.

It's not wise to seek the revenge and forget to love.

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

When asked to spell Mississippi the boy asked "The river or the state?"

Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well.

Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.

You cannot teach a person who knows everything.

An educated mind is a questioning mind. Or is it?

We cannot improve ourselves or our country without improving our educational system and educating ourselves.

It is particularly important to note that, in a democracy, education has never been concerned only with supplying the needs of the economy or ensuring effective socialisation; it also has strong traditions of preparing for citizenship, extending possibilities for learning and promoting social progress.

Control your thoughts to define your life.

Like so many of his successors in the language-crank world today, though, (Jonathan) Swift not only loathes (the) banal and common change (language); he ascribes it to moral failing.

In one sense the whole process of development consists of the formation of habits; for knowledge itself, and the powers of thought, as well as the higher elements in the will, all depend upon the establishment of fixed ways of reacting to given stimuli. Consequently, the general laws of habituation underlie the whole of education. But the term habit is more commonly restricted to those established reactions that act with little or no participation of consciousness, or, in other words, mechanically or automatically. Such habits as these begin to form very early, and constitute a kind of supporting framework for the higher elements of character.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?

Love is still alive in my heart. Dreams are still alive at the dead of night. Hopes are still dancing in my mind.

Your education is your life.

When you are doing something you love, you see the lover dancing in your heart.

You can reach higher heights by faith.

Not the reality, but your thoughts define your destiny.

The quality of the relationships that students have in class with their peers and teachers is important to their success in school.

Remember to live and learn to give.

Every great accomplishments requires great grace and great enthusiasm.

Do you know what every instructor in the world wants from you? He or she really, really wants you to do two things: Demonstrate that you have understood the course material and write intelligently about your subject.

If you have the capability to stimulate your brain power by being eager to accumulate new knowledge from reading important texts in a daily basis , you will eventually be able to prove your distinguished intelligence to others by pursuing a prestigious career.

Love is the light through which we find joy and happiness.

Living life is sacred education.

How would you document the history of today?

Peace is the only destination worth searching for.

If you never listen, you can't see. The devil has got so many people so disconnected that they cannot even listen or even sense when the Lord is speaking.

Step into the light and create your own shadow.