Quotes by Education The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. F. Scott Fitzgerald positive-thinkingeducationtime Something I tell my students is to read once; then if you still have problems with it, read it a second time. If you still have problems, get drunk and read it a third time... and you might get something out of it. Felix Gonzalez-Torres drunkeducationmight Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education. Felix Morley adultseducationideas True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius. Felix Schelling individualitygeniuseducation But do let me reiterate the spirit of Michigan. It is based upon a deathless loyalty to Michigan and all her ways; an enthusiasm that makes it second nature for Michigan men to spread the gospel of their university to the world's distant outposts; a conviction that nowhere is there a better university, in any way, than this Michigan of ours. Fielding H. Yost loyaltyeducationmen You see it in schools all over... the concept that 'I'll be somewhat less than my best in order to make those around me feel more comfortable' is alive and well... I'm very keen that they understand that if they make themselves a little less than they can be, it is a one-way street to mediocrity. Fiona Wood learningleadershipeducation Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice. Fiona Wood educationsportsbook My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will. Fiona Wood girlmothereducation My father's saying, The harder you work, the luckier you get. Fiona Wood learningeducationfather You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think. Finley Peter Dunne learningeducationmen It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it. Finley Peter Dunne humorouseducationwork Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. Flannery O'Connor womeneducationteacher Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life. F. Scott Fitzgerald collegeeducationmen Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs. Florence King educationjobsschool As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the cliché that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt. Florence King technologyeducationchildren ... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish? Frances Wright religiouswiseeducation Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider. Francis Bacon educationteacherlife Education is too important to be left solely to educators. Francis Keppel educatorimportanteducation The end and aim of all education is the development of character. Francis Wayland Parker developmenteducationcharacter Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative? Francois Le Lionnais phoenixlearningeducation«4445464748495051525354»
