Education Quotes - Page 94

There is only one religion and that is to love unconditionally. Those who kill in the name of religion are the bigot and biggest nonbeliever.

Failure is often our best teacher not the success.

Reading is a sacred-paradise.

God has permitted the great lie for a short time only. That time is now coming to an end. Believers in the lie! You have been raised on the milk of your concrete beliefs. Now it is time for you to be weaned to partake of the solid food of the new age, the "New World Order.

The only gift to yourself is your ability to seek knowledge.

Relationships are where we humans get our greatest education.

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou know not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

If "doctor" means "master teacher," then I think teaching in K-12 for 10 years deserves said title. Our practicum is potent and our expertise is in the service of children. In fact, I might start calling myself Dr. Vilson on principle. Fight me

You achieve greatness, not by accumulating wealth, but by becoming king, loving, forgiving, and simple.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back and back to the bit in its lesson that it wants to shirk.

Mogo living brings about true freedom. When you have the inner conviction to do the most good and the least harm, you are free to say no to media, social, and peer pressures. You are free from a nagging sense that your life does not have value or meaning. You are free to imagine and then create a truly successful (in the deepest meaning on the word) life. You are free to be at peace with yourself and all those whom your life touches.

If you want to get more, appreciate and express heartfelt gratitude for what you have.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

We find paradise in every library and bookshop.

there is no place of politics in education. The moment you let politics invade your education system, you inadvertently welcome chaos into the future of young India. Educational institutions have nothing to do with political propagandas. So, open your eyes, and throw any kind of political agenda out of your institutions.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

Education is a savings account that you fill by learning and by spending. Even if you spend for the rest of your life, it will only grow to give you joy.

Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan.

The more you know, the less you talk. The less you talk, the more you know.

I feels sorrier for him than anybody I knows. I expect he done read more books than any white man in this town. He done read more books and he done worried about more things. He full of books and worrying. He done lost God and turned his back on religion. His troubles come down just to that.

It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism.

The obstacles are distractions. Focus on the ultimate goal.

It is my toughest time but the greatest.

Not everyone in school is learning. Not everyone learning is in school

[Today's high schoolers are required to read] a couple of Shakespeare plays...the couple of Shakespeare plays function as an inoculation – that is, you get exposed to 'half-dead Shakespeare virus', and it keeps you from ever loving Shakespeare again, your whole life long. It would be much better if they didn't do that at all!Because [the students] have no linguistic preparation for it, and no cultural or historical preparation for it. They've not been reading English poetry, so the language strikes them as completely bizarre […] and they have no historical place to put it, so they don't know what's going on. All they know is that they're 'supposed to like it'.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves -- you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

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

Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer.

When the Indians saw us whipping our children, they thought at first that we must hate our children, but then they thought, no, no one can hate his child. They decided it must be a religious rite, to make the child hate this world and long for the next. We're a strange vicious people.

To create new reality, change the perception but not the reality.

I have no wealth or splendors to give, but I have love and smiles to share.

The grace of fulfilled dream is phenomenal.

In the problems lie the opportunities. You become strong by facing adversities.

A deep commitment to general education is impossible in a context in which faculty and students prize above all their ability to teach and study what they want.

A kindergarten teacher is a woman who knows how to make little things count.

An educated woman is seen as a human being with a vagina. An uneducated woman is seen as a vagina with a human being.

For me, all those systematic Bureaucracies of traditional schools jaded me. For me, I still couldn’t understand why we have to have a factory style education for children living in the 21st century. Why hold them in place, asking them to read and repeat and giving them a number of tasks to finish? I still have no idea how exams and objective assessments could measure human behavior or intelligence. Is it some kind of barcoding human aptitude? Is it ethical anyway?

Happiness will grow if you plant the seeds of love in the garden of hope with compassion and care.

Whenever you can call your enemy and tell him that you truly love him with compassion, then you are practicing the power of true love.

Smile without reason, because you are the reason.

I imagine, therefore I am.

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may not remember. Involve me and I'll understand.

Teach a person to think and they'll devise a way to eat for a lifetime

Smile reveals the beauty of heart, which is timeless and ageless.

I think the difficulty lies in the immeasurable vanity of the human adult, particularly the pedagogical adult,… which does not permit him to recognize as good any tendency in children to fly in the face of his conceptions of a correct human being; to recognize that may be here is something highly desirable, to be encourage, rather than destroyed as pernicious…. [Y]our teacher has usually well-defined conceptions of what men and women have to be. And if a boy is too lively, too noisy, too restless, too curious, to suit the concept, he must be trimmed and subdued.

True education is more powerful than money or weapons. It is the key to a magical land where nothing is impossible.

I would rather love you and live a miserable life than live a wonderful life without your love.

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

Now it makes sense, for example, if the children are taking a vocabulary test of 100 words, and one of the kids misses thirteen of them, to give him an 87 percent. But we go far beyond this. A student writes an essay on a sunset, let us say, and the teacher writes 87 percent at the top of that paper. What he is saying, in effect, is that there is a mathematical metaphor operative here. The figure of 87 is to 100 what this submitted essay is . . . to what? What on earth is this supposed to mean?

Stress comes from fear of the unknown, so have faith and fear will disappear and stress will melt away.

Education isn’t something your professors make for you. It’s something you make for yourself.

God always have a perfect way for every imperfect situations.

If you ought to know, educate yourself.

Walk through the past and learn the way. I am walking through the present, taking action every day. I am preparing for the future in a great way.

One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to fit life...Life, facts, things were horribly complicated; ideas, even the most difficult of them, deceptively simple. In the world of ideas, everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Was it surprising that one was miserable, horribly unhappy?

Wherever you are, whoever you are, I am touching you and feeling you, not with my hand, but with my feelings and love.

A bud has to bloom to unfold her beauty. A child has to become educated to unfold her incredible potential.

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them.

The grain of evil seed had been sown in the heart of Adam from the beginning, and how much ungodliness had it brought up unto this time? and how much shall it yet bring forth until the time of threshing come?