~ Education Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

Jesse Jackson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]If I ran a school I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them and then told me what they learned from them.

Buckminster Fuller

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts ideas and theories a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.

Raymond Queneau

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material but warmth is a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Carl Jung

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]While the romanticized ideal of universal public education resonates with the cognoscenti who oppose vouchers poor urban families just want the best education for their children who will certainly need it to function in our high-tech and advanced society.

Clarence Thomas

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]There are some things which cannot be learned quickly and time which is all we have must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

Ernest Hemingway

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Thomas Henry Huxley

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Surely the shortest commencement address in history - and for me one of the most memorable - was that of Dr. Harold E. Hyde President of New Hampshire's Plymouth State College. He reduced his message to the graduating class to these three ideals: 'Know yourself- Socrates. Control yourself- Cicero; Give yourself - Christ.'

Walter T. Tatara

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]We should not value education as a means to prosperity but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition by forcing the student to stand back from it.

Roger Scruton