Education Quotes - Page 57

As far as I can go, I will reach for it.

What you love is longing for you.

Fire . . . Does that light by itself?

Education helps us to grow wings of imagination that allow us to feel free and fly.

Every experience set the stepping stones for greater success.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

Hope is like a dream with plan and purpose.

You will find the peace, not by looking outside, but by changing your thoughts, feelings and perception inside.

We need both Socrates and Aristotle in the search for knowledge, but in education today there is too much Aristotle and too little Socrates.

Every thought I have, everything I dois an expression of love to uplift you.

A person with the best strategy never gets angry.

There are so many charlatans in the world of education. They teach for a couple of years, come up with a few clever slogans, build their websites, and hit the lecture circuit. In this fast-food-society, simple solutions to complex problems are embraced far too often. We can do better. I hope that people who read this book realize that true excellence takes sacrifice, mistakes, and enormous amounts of effort. After all, there are no shortcuts.

I am optimistic because I will use power of love to find the miracles of life.

Believe it or not, philosophy has consequences.

Peace is a blue skyWith gentle and kind breezeFilled with love and joyWhich we can dwell and share.

Life is a story, until I awake and saw life as a dream.

Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school.

Gratitude transforms our mindset from enough to abundance and opens the window of limitless potentials.

Tomorrow belongs to those who are sincerely learning and loving today.

My happiness comes from the donation of my life in many ways for the current and for the future generations.

Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them in the collective knowledge of our species, and this trust confers survival value. But it also makes children vulnerable to being tricked and adults who exploit this vulnerability should be deeply ashamed.

Number me the things that are not yet come- gather me together the dross that are scattered abroad- make me the flowers green again that are withered- Open me the places that are closed, and bring me forth the winds that in them are shut up- shew me the image of a voice: and then I will declare to thee the thing that thou labor to know.

Aside from the straightforwardly visible curriculum, there is the hidden curriculum. This exists in the wider set of beliefs and values pupils acquire because of the way that a school is run and its teaching organized. It is about the behaviour of the teachers, the textbooks chosen, the school rules.

The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts.

If he could not restore her to the status of a respectable woman, then Sohrab would make her into something else entirely, something hitherto unknown in their entire extended family, an educated woman, a professional woman.

As a rule, the human mind gets attached to possessions very firmly. They don’t want to lose anything. They hold on to the little possession and can’t see the big possibilities.

It is your future that really matters.

If you want to expel religion from our European civilization, you can only do it by means of another system of doctrines; and such a system would from the outset take over all the psychological characteristics of religion—the same sanctity, rigidity and intolerance, the same prohibition of thought—for its own defence. You have to have something of the kind in order to meet the requirements of education. And you cannot do without education.

To promote peace, promote understanding. To promote understanding, promote love.

What "wasting time" means? At the time we glorify self instead of glorify God, at that time we are wasting our time as... God is Time.

I thought i had been educated well enough until i left college.

School is a factory where the raw material called student is turned into a product called employee.

If you lose the power to love, you lose the ability to live.

Each moment of love is eternal.Each moment of life is essential.

The ultimate purpose of education is to improve the power of your imagination and to change your vision.

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.

I grew up in libraries, and I hope I've learned never to take them for granted. A thriving library is the heart of its community, providing access to information and educational opportunities, bringing people together, leveling the playing field, and archiving our history.

Take care of your mind. Never let negative thoughts infect your mind.

Catholic education and law schools provide me with a lot of miserable people as psychotherapy clients. I should be grateful. These people are looking for rescue from their education.

Wherever you go, whenever you meet someone, enlighten every mind, brighten their life with love and kindness, it will make your world so delightful and so beautiful.

In the darkest sky, stars hang on high; showing us the light of hope and telling us that dreams never die, don’t see the darkness, wait for the morning sun.

Narrative understanding is a large part of the ability to connect with, understand, and have compassion for all of us engaged in learning more about being human.

..it lay in the true function of the university to promote that interplay of view, that discussion and dispute, that cumulative narrowing down of possibilities that led to the formation of accurate opinion. The students could be, as it were (he said), the rubbing post for the thought of his teacher.

God is the one subject of reality. Take away the one subject and there is nothing real.

Trying to get more learning out of the present system is like trying to get the Pony Express to compete with the telegraph by breeding faster ponies.

I am happy in every moment and every day. My happiness depends on me, not on the way.

Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

Love is waiting for you, lifting her hand, open your heart and accept it.

The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge.

Fill your mind before you empty your mouth.

Now the line is: Forget the classics, concentrate on an education for the 21st century! Which apparently means knowing how to operate electronic devices and figure out a spreadsheet. That's not education, it's vocational training. What once were means seem to have become ends in education. And our more with-it "educators" shift with every passing wind, clutching at the latest gimmick the way drowning men do at straws.

My writings are reflections of my momentary thoughts, imaginations, and love for you and life in this world as a whole.

By the time you have a platform for saying what you want, you’ve already become part of the system. It’s how it works.

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

If your education, talent and capacity can do nothing; your body can do lots of things.

I see the beauty of books and sacred-souls of every author displaced in a bookshop.

With modern technology it is the easiest of tasks for a media, guided by a narrow group of political manipulators, to speak constantly of democracy and freedom while urging regime changes everywhere on earth but at home. A curious condition of a republic based roughly onthe original Roman model is that it cannot allow true political parties to share in government. What then is a true political party: one that is based firmly in the interest of a class be it workers or fox hunters. Officially we have two parties which are in fact wings of a common party of property with two right wings. Corporate wealth finances each. Since the property party controls every aspect of media they have had decades to create a false reality for a citizenry largely uneducated by public schools that teach conformity with an occasional advanced degree in consumerism.

Value a day only by the love that you gave away.

In large part, we are teachers precisely because we remember what it was like to be a student. Someone inspired us. Someone influenced us. Or someone hurt us. And we’ve channeled that joy (or pain) into our own unique philosophies on life and learning and we’re always looking for an opportunity to share them—with each other, our students, parents, or in our communities.

In the achievement of dreams demands 100 percent dedication.