Best 6551 quotes in «education quotes» category

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?

No education deserves the name unless it develops thought, unless it pierces down to the mysterious spiritual principle of mind, and starts that into activity and growth.

No form, no manifestation of knowledge, is senseless.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.

No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

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.

Non-linear means it's hard to solve.

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

No one can take it away from you.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free & good government.

No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Notable enough, however, are the controversies over the series 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ... whose sum was given by Leibniz as 1/2, although others disagree. ... Understanding of this question is to be sought in the word "sum"; this idea, if thus conceived - namely, the sum of a series is said to be that quantity to which it is brought closer as more terms of the series are taken - has relevance only for convergent series, and we should in general give up the idea of sum for divergent series.

Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong lesson and learn something he wasn't suppose to.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.

Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance, and nothing can bring us together better than an educated population.

Not only does art imitate life but life imitates art. Perhaps we not only learn about life from stories, perhaps we make our lives through the stories we tell ourselves about the things that happen to us.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.

Nothing would more effectively further the development of education than for all flogging pedagogues to learn to educate with the head instead of with the hand.

Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon - all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.

Nowadays, when a speaker tells the graduates that the future is theirs--is that a promise or a threat?

Now, a good education is about so much more than just learning geometry or memorizing dates in history. All of that is important, but an education is also about exploring new things -- discovering what makes you come alive, and then being your best at whatever you choose

Now I will have less distraction.

Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.

Of all the errors which can possibly be committed to the education of youth, that of sending them to Europe is the most fatal. I see [clearly] that no American should come to Europe under 30 years of age.

Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose, To tell what every schoolboy knows.

Of all human activities, education is the one most likely to give rise to cant, pomposity and fraudulent expertise.

Oh teacher, I need you like a little child, you got something in you to drive a school boy wild.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

On all levels primary, and secondary and undergraduate - mathematics is taught as an isolated subject with few, if any, ties to the real world. To students, mathematics appears to deal almost entirely with things whlch are of no concern at all to man.

Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything, and hence that it is a sign of ignorance to be surprised or puzzled by anything.

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.

One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House of Intellect and its Hegelian/Bergsonian contrast between rigidified "intellect" and always-growing "intelligence." This fundamentally Hegelian distinction, needless to say, cuts to the quick of the contrast between Platonic and Aristotelian forms of philosophy.

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day.

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.