Education Quotes - Page 16

Find a vocation and passionately commit your life to it.

Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. The trouble is that very few of their laborious explanations stick in the memory. The mind drops them as a branch drops its overripe fruit. ... Again and again I ask impatiently, "Why concern myself with these explanations and hypotheses?" They fly hither and thither in my thought like blind birds beating the air with ineffectual wings. I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.

If war, destruction and killings are the prerequisite to bring the peace, then I really don't want it.

With persistent focus, commitment and enthusiasm, your dream will be reality.

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

Start wherever you are! Low hanging fruit really tastes as good as the high stuff.

Singapore is now in the top five. Its income per person even tops oil-rich and scarcely populated Kuwait. Having realized that the country had no natural resources, the government of founding father Lee Kuan Yew directed massive investment in human capital. Kids who were eight or ten or thirteen several decades ago are now some of the most productive citizens of today's economy.A tiny nation-state with no natural resources and a large number of people living in a relatively small physical space has managed to outearn a country with some of the largest oil deposits ever found. That is the power of investing in and nurturing young brains.Education alone may not be enough to guarantee economic success. There are other success factors that matter, like good governance, rule of law, and access to trading routes and partners. But if you were challenged to assemble a prosperous society from scratch, education would be the first building block you'd want to develop.

Set as higher dimensional beings walking the earth today, who must INcarnate (there is no REincarnation if there is no time. Exception: descending spirals which crystallize in lower frequencies) to live in the various dream worlds (this one included) with the final "kick"/baptism by water, pulling up ALL the densities/dimensions through LOVE.

Today, death is your opponent.

Education gives light, life and liberty.

Self-education is lifelong curiosity.

Do more than expected, promise less than you can keep.

In America, we have an education system where we mass produce high school and college graduates that leads us into a false sense of security that wise people who came before us figured out what we need to know to have the best possible life and that when we have completed our education that knowledge has been imparted to us.

The path of light is the quest for knowledge.

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

For every great success, diligence is desirable from the beginning to the very end.

When you sweeten your knowledge and experience with your thoughts, it becomes your wisdom.

If you ask me I think the greatest breakthrough each and everyone of us need is not on finance, marriage, work, relationship, own house, car but self. The first breakthrough should start from being selfish.

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

Self-observation is simply the observation of an internal state and an external event. It is pure awareness, which gives one the ability to choose one's actions. Only by having the choice can one perform what is right.

I didn't come from a success lineage but I am so glad that my earthly lineage is not my final story because when I gave my life to Jesus twelve years back, God interrupted my story.

Life has dazzling beauty. To see it, open the window of the mind and remove the curtain of conformity.

Make your education valuable. Apply what you learnt. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and be part of the change.

Life is about the moments you create,that you can keep with you forever.After everything is over,That is what we have or what we are left with.

EFFECT OF A TRUE TEACHER GOES UP TO ETERNITY THROUGH HIS STUDENTS.

Try ONE behavior strategy and be consistent. Watch what happens.

correlation between the growing lack of respect for ideas and the imagination and the increasing gap between rich and poor in America, reflected not just in the gulf between the salaries of CEOs and their employees but also in the high cost of education, the incredible divide between private and public schools that makes all of the fine speeches by our policy makers— most of whom send their children to private schools anyway, just as they enjoy the benefits and perks of their jobs as servants of the people— all the more insidious and insincere.

To change the world, change yourself first.

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.

Creatures whose main spring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of fact far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Beliefs are a powerful thing. I often travel the world and sometimes the local waitresses attending me are nervous if they can’t speak English. Now, when this happens, I point at the pictures in the menu. However, I’ve noticed that the ones with the strongest beliefs, the most nervous ones, still do a mistake in my order. Another interesting things to notice in these situations is that, when I correct them, by pointing again at what I ordered before, they recognize their mistake, but get angry, as if their mistake was my fault, and that’s called irresponsibility. Now, when you combine irresponsibility with the wrong beliefs, you have a a very dumb person. That’s what stupidity is, it’s a human being doing the wrong things with the wrong beliefs and never ever accepting any responsibility for it. That’s how those with the lowest spiritual conscience behave in general with themselves and others.

Raising awareness versus raising alarmthe public can't be better informed if the information isn't better.

When you find yourself wanting to turn your children, or pupils, or even your neighbours, into people exactly like yourself, remember that God probably never meant them to be that. You and they are different organs, intended to do different things.

Just love, just feel the love, longing for love, nothing else matters.

As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead "freed his mind" from worry and facilitated fresh, lucid thought.

There is no poetry or song. There is no short or long.There is only you.

First knowledge is the knowledge of God.

If we learn to know that there is no enemy but we only have friend with misunderstanding then peace will be there.

Let your only graduation be in the grave.

Teaching is the best way to learn. Never stop learning.

The will to love, the desire to help, and an open mind with gratitude can unlock the door to eternal happiness.

Love to live and live to love.

Test-oriented teaching strikes me as anti-educational, a kind of unpleasant game that subverts the real aim of education: to waken a student to her or his potential, and to pursue a subject of considerable importance without restrictions imposed by anything except the inherent demands of the material.

True love never wants to get, just give. True love never can hurt because it always forgives.

This world is as loving as much as you love this world.

You are the center of your universe, without you nothing is there.

Go thy way, weigh me the weight of the fire, or measure me the blast of the wind, or call me again the day that is past.

Liberty opens the door to possibility. Freedom gives us a chance to make that possibility a reality.

The enemy of learning is knowing.

A castle of defense, a bastion of mightA fort where the wise teach the young to fightAn armory of weapons, sharp as hooksAre wrapped in leather and shelved as books

Share your love, share your happiness; you will be rich and a great success.

Reach out to the fullness of God’s grace strength for any accomplishment.

Our life is a journey toward happiness.

Religion often has conflict with science but spirituality is a science.

Assuming that all ‘unschooled’ people to lack education is akin to assuming that a salary is the only means to make money, or, that a vagina or a penis is the only source of an orgasm.

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.

The only difference between success and failure is Lack of Vision

Every moment is a moment of hope, moment of beauty, a moment of joy and it is our life.

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying.

For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.