Quotes by Education Imagine that you wanted your children to learn the names of all their cousins, aunts and uncles. But you never actually let them meet or play with them. You just showed them pictures of them, and told them to memorize their names. Each day you'd have them recite the names, over and over again. You'd say, "OK, this is a picture of your great-aunt Beatrice. Her husband was your great-uncle Earnie. They had three children, your uncles Harpo, Zeppo, and Gummo. Harpo married your aunt Leonie ... yadda, yadda, yadda." Brian X. Foley cousinuncleseducation You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation. Brigham Young strong-womenfamilyeducation No matter what your circumstances are, whether you are in prosperity or in adversity, you can learn from every person, transaction, and circumstance around you. Brigham Young adversityeducationinspiring Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life. Brigham Young educationmotivationalinspirational If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters. Brigham Young daughtermothereducation See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning. Brigham Young mothereducationchildren I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed. Bruce Lee teachingeducationphilosophy We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright. Bruce Springsteen realeducationschool Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to "real" people and everyday events--knew what intellectual experience made for true humanity. He suggested that the future citizens of his ideal republic begin their literary education with the telling of myths, rather than with mere facts or so-called rational teachings. Bruno Bettelheim platoeducationchildren There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health. C. Everett Koop healthkindeducation The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor. C. Northcote Parkinson mindeducationbook Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C. S. Lewis live-lifeclevereducation The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C. S. Lewis teachingeducationteacher The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic. C. S. Lewis intelligentwould-beeducation Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles....He's our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything. C. S. Lewis educationbelievepeople Man has got to take charge of Man.... Then real education, including pre-natal education. By real education I mean one that has no 'take-it-or-leave-it' nonsense. A real education makes the patient what it wants infallibly: whatever he or his parents try to do about it. Of course, it'll have to be mainly psychological at first. But we'll get on to biochemical conditioning int he end and direct manipulation of the brain. C. S. Lewis realeducationmean There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning. Calvin Coolidge educationmenscience School is not the end but only the beginning of an education. Calvin Coolidge learningeducationschool Education should be the handmaid of citizenship. Calvin Coolidge citizenshipshouldeducation It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be correctly informed, than it is under an absolute government that they should be ignorant. Under a republic the institutions of learning, while bound by the constitution and laws, are in no way subservient to the government. Calvin Coolidge governmentlaweducation«2223242526272829303132»
