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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!

We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!

We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.

What about your school? It's defective, it's a pack of useless lies.

What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education!

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.

What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears.

What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?

What education is to the individual man, revelation is to the human race. Education is revelation coming to the individual man, and revelation is education that has come, and is still coming to the human race.

Whatever education a university or institutes of higher education imparts, it must achieve the global level of benchmarking given the vastness and diversity of global village we live in today.

Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.

Whatever new threats and challenges may emerge, our nation will be able to face them squarely, deal with them, and yet allow our people to continue to live free and unafraid. The decisions you make, the courage and creativity you bring to your responsibilities, will determine America's future. Liberty and our way of life are fragile gifts - their care is in your hands. We thank you for stepping forward to shoulder that immense responsibility. Your country is grateful, and proud of each of you.

What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a path in the wilderness of his own soul, a disheartening process, lifelong and lonesome and therefore, of what use graduate work?

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to carry a long job through. ... Helping children to face up to a certain amount of drudgery, cheerfully and energetically, is one of the biggest problems that teachers, in these days of ubiquitous entertainment, have to face in our schools.

What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals.

What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

What makes it possible to learn advanced math fairly quickly is that the human brain is capable of learning to follow a given set of rules without understanding them, and apply them in an intelligent and useful fashion. Given sufficient practice, the brain eventually discovers (or creates) meaning in what began as a meaningless game.

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.

What we do not understand we do not possess.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the urge of imagination-of imagination which broke the roadway through the forest in order that cold logic might follow.

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

When all is said and done we simply must make teaching in this country an honorable profession-since it's in the classrooms of America where the battle for excellence, ultimately, will be won or lost.

When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.

When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.

When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, “Not to unlearn what you have learned!”

Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.

When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.

Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.

When first the college rolls receive his name, The young enthusiast quilts his ease for fame; Through all his veins the fever of renown Burns from the strong contagion of the gown