Education Quotes - Page 3

Here was a king who saw his subjects as peers and allies around whom he had growing up rather than semi-alien entities to be suspected and persecuted.

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?

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

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. “Izzy,” she would say, “did you ask a good question today?” That difference — asking good questions — made me become a scientist.

Graduate school introduces student to extensive knowledge search.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create theirown.

An intelligent person looks for problems to solve. The wise person looks for solutions.

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future".

Someone asked me once at a talk why I so stress the positive with my students yet am such an unstinting critic of those who run our culture and who are killing the planet. I answered immediately, “Power. If I’ve got power or authority over someone, it’s my responsibility to use that only to help them. It’s my job to accept and praise them into becoming who they are.

Generosity is the flower of our love for the humanity.

Love as the moon loves the night.Love as much as you can.Love as long as you can.Love as long as you live.Live only as long as you can love.

Conflict is much the same, injustice and inequality is nothing new to our generation only the contest has changed because not only that everyone has opinion but they also have an opportunity to voice it and that is a bit dangerous.

When the founding fathers conceived of this new nation, they understood that the education of its citizens would be essential to the health of their democratic enterprise. Knowledge was not just a luxury; it was essential.

God always have a perfect way for every imperfect situations.

Cognitive Intelligence defines a person's personality trait who utilizes critical thinking based on empirical evidence, logics and thorough understanding of the information during an intellectual argument or an educational setting where they acquire brand new concepts.

Schools are made for the average. The holes are all round, and whatever shape the pegs are they must wedge in somehow. One hasn't time to bother about anything but the average.

Without love, life is a barren field.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

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

Nobody can bring you a change. You have to want to change.

Education -- whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people, or even oneself -- consists in creating motives. To show what is beneficial, what is obligatory, what is good -- that is the task of education. Education concerns itself with the motives for effective action. For no action is ever carried out in the absence of motives capable of supplying the indispensable amount of energy for its execution.

The men and women who made up DoDDS Korea during the time I was there were an eclectic group to say the least, but as a group we were among the most talented, diverse, intelligent, fun, crazy, thoughtful, caring, and dedicated people in the world. We did important work, and we did it well. Better than that, we did it exceptionally well. We were experts in our fields, and we made each other better still because we depended on each other in ways that people who’ve never lived overseas could ever imagine.

Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test.

Every individual must be given the opportunity to unearth his/her highest potential.

Focus on joy, not on hurt or fear.The earth will dance, peace to share.

Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects.

Our happiness or misery depends upon our perception, not on the situation.

Life is a journey, so go on your way. Be a messenger of peace.

May you the willpower and chase your God-given dreams.

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

Every moment you lose your temper, you lose a moment of opportunity to love.

Begin to acquire knowledge.

Don't try to hurt anyone, you will not succeed because you can hurt only yourself.

When you share your knowledge, you gain wisdom. Share as much as you can and as often as you can.

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity. Prudence and responsibility are not middle-class virtues but human virtues.

You are the loving child of this universe, she is always eager to help you, your joy is her happiness.

Education has enhanced my wisdom. Simplicity and humility will not allow me to call myself wise.

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

Educate thyself.

Act as if there is no chance of failure.

One of the most common and most dangerous misbeliefs is that it is impossible for someone to be stupid just because they are a doctor or a lawyer.

Reading is a sacred-paradise.

Always be positive, enjoy the music of rain on a rainy day.

A stream of thoughts flows through one’s mind at a sacred-time.

That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

Give yourself to a great cause, not only your possessions.

Freedom is will-power to define my path.

Enjoy every moment. Today will never come back.

Fun is never gone because life is fun.

Perseverance, endurance and patience are the three greatest survival skills.

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

The more I dare to play the game of life, the more the possibility to win.

The thing that had been, it is that which shall be; And that which is done is that which shall be done.

The child is not a citizen of the future; he (sic) is a citizen from the very first moment of life and also the most important citizen because he represents and brings the 'possible'...a bearer, here and now of rights, of values, of culture...It is our hiostorical responsibility not only to affirm this but the create cultural, social, political and educational contexts which are able to receive children and dialogue with their potential for constructing human rights.

You're only limited by your thoughts. You're limitless, boundless, endless and edgeless.

If we can teach everyone how to calm their minds, this world will see peace.

Find the will power and begin to chase your dreams.

Are you thinking? Are you creating? Ask yourself whenever you feel boring?

What we dream repeatedly, we become.